Fife Child in the Fifties - by
They’ve long demolished the side-street by the Links
/ That set me journeying when I was six or so:
/ In my grandmother’s room…
nostalgia
My Country - by
Such a small country, spread on an isthmus
/ where the sky is clearer, the sun brighter;
/ all your music echoes within me,…
The Village - by
Can you ever forget the village?
/ Can you ever forget its shore
/ from where the splashing of water rises in evening?
/
/ Can you…
You Ask Me, Why My Heart Flies From the Coast - by
You ask me, why my heart flies from the coast
/ back to Castile, to towering raw terrains,
/ why, near the sea, in…
The country I come from - by
had brindled garter snakes
/ freight train steam
/ dimes flattened on railway tracks
/ a rusting 1936 Studebaker Sedan for a playground
/ three dappled Indian ponies…
Caracas - by
The buildings are so high
/ nothing can be seen now of my childhood.
/ I’ve lost my patio with its lazy clouds
/ where the…
ΟΔΙΚΟΣ ΧΑΡΤΗΣ - by
Βλέποντας τον οδικό χάρτη
/ Λευκωσίας και προαστίων
/ η οδός Fuat Paşa τελειώνει στην Δίωνος και Ιασίου
/ η Defne Yüksel στην Λάμπρου…
Late show - by
I only watch reruns now,
/ or films about geese,
/
/ and yet I’m waiting for the miracle
/ I used to find in early black…
from Malli i Shqiperise - by
Te shkoj dua mbremjes ne rruget e Tiranes,
/ Ku kam bere dikur ndonje marrezi,
/ Dhe ne rruget ku skam bere asnje marrezi.
/ Me…
Veredas de Buenos Aires - by
De este texto nació un tango,
/ Con música de Edgardo Cantón
/
/ De pibes la llamamos la vedera
/ y a ella le gustó que…
Memories of Holland - by
Thinking of Holland
/ I see broad rivers
/ slowly chuntering
/ through endless lowlands,
/ rows of implausibly
/ airy poplars
/ standing like tall plumes
/ against the horizon;
/ and sunk in the…
Like a Beacon - by
In London
/ every now and then
/ I get this craving
/ for my mother’s food
/ I leave art galleries
/ in search of plantains
/ saltfish/sweet potatoes
/
/ I need this…