Seven Decades - by
At forty I woke up, saw it was day,
found there was love, heard a new beat, heard Beats,
sent airmail solidarity to Saõ
Paulo’s poetic-concrete revolution
writing poetry
Advice to a Young Author - by
First begin
/ Taking in.
/ Cargo stored,
/ All aboard,
/ Think about
/ Giving out.
/ Empty ship,
/ Useless trip!
/
/ Never strain
/ Weary brain.
/ Hardly fit,
/ Wait a bit!
/ After rest
/ Comes the best.
/ Sitting still,
/ Let it fill;
/ Never…
Forvörðurinn - by
Afi reykti pípi
/ í sextíu ár
/
/ og hékk þar á vegg
/ landslag úr norskum firði
/
/ Forvörður þvoði loks
/ málverkið
/ og fann lítið þorp
/ við rætur fjalls
/
/ forvörðurinn þvoði…
Hunang og blóð - by
Til eru skáld
/ sem vakna andfúl að morgni
/ fá sér harðsoðið egg með blaðinu
/ hunang í teið
/ en frussa svo í vaskinn:
/ Oj blóðbragð
/
/ Önnur vakna
/ í…
Dikt - by
Dikt
/
/ Der är inte så, att dikten beskriver en tanke
/ som klockkedjan beskriver magen.
/ Ingen dikt börjar med en tanke.
/ Det är tanken som…
Wörter - by
Wörter
/ meine Fallschirme
/ mit euch
/ springe
/ ich
/ ab
/
/ Ich fürchte nicht die Tiefe
/ wer euch richtig
/ öffnet
/
/ Schwebt…
Ostatni wiersz - by
Ten wiersz miał autorytatywnie podsumować
/ uzupełnić i zaokrąglić
/ postawić kropkę
/ nad światem i światem poezje
/ a tymczasem wymyka mi się
/ własnymi słowami
/ wyobraża człowieka w rozterce
/ jest…
‘Tas varbūt būtu vislabāk…’ - by
Tas varbūt būtu vislabāk – nelikties zinis
/ par tipogrāfijām, nemaz nelaist klāt vārdiem
/ tos svinīgi melnos un vienādos burtus,
/ lai paliek viss mana…
The Rat - by
A young man wrote a poem about a rat.
/ It was the best poem ever written about a rat.
/ To read it…
Hell for Poets - by
It’s Hell for the poet arriving for the gig
/ Off the five thirty three to meet the organiser
/ Who claps her in…
Visitation - by
In pride of place on my work-surface
/ are an ink-well of weighted glass
/
/ and a black quill-pen, presented to me
/ when I left…
The Radioactive Kid - by
Why do you write the way you write? he asks,
/ nods and adds, in case there was any doubt,
/ I mean, you…