What cld you potentially – no! – possibly do to mean – O – wait! this feels too facile. So try once again. Make sure it is all sure – steadfast – scalar movements towards god knows what. You request the sun is shut out so you can muse on song. O – but of […]
The first to die was PROTESILAUS / A focused man who hurried to darkness / With forty black ships leaving…
For Lois Pereiro
/
/ In Ithaca everyone was dead.
/ They say it was me, Argos the dog, who woke first:
/ — Dead, dead, dead!
/ A smell…
after Nonnus
/
/ I
/
/ Her only home was here in this forest, among the high rocks,
/ sending her long arrows in flight through…
tell us a story they said
he thought a long time
unsure, like someone
searching blind in a cave
The threid that reeled him in
/ has brocht me oot –
/ oot o the nairra mask
/ o thirled weys
/ tae the clear licht…
Frae the Ukrainian o Mykhailo Drai-Khmara
/
/ I pree its peace, this outland garth,
/ As the mirk faas on glamourie:
/ As I hark til…
وطنم قصۀ غمگينی است
/ برهمه باديه و جنگل و دشت
/ که نوشتن نتوان
/ ***
/ خواب رنگين شب عيد منست
/ سربام و شب…
Never build three doors
/ in a straight line
/
/ A devil might rush
/ through them
/ deep into your house,
/ into your life
/ …
He thought of so many ways to make this
/ (veined wing, weightless thing),
/ walked in nothingness dreaming.
/
/ Gathered and tossed stars like coins…
