Ein Haus, nirgends - by
wenn
/ stück
/ für stück
/ glaube
/ von Wortern
/ herunter fehlt
/ was mache
/ ich da
/ ich sammle Silben
/ baue Ihnen
/ ein haus, nirgends…
writing poetry
Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat) - by
an extract
/
/ Sweeter than the flesh of sour apples to children, the green water penetrated my pinewood hull and washed me…
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…
If this short poem stretches - by
If this short poem stretches beyond
/ its first line, then already, already,
/ it has failed, become something else,
/ something its author did not…
‘Poems never written down…’ - by
Poems never written down
/
/ pebbles in the ocean’s throat
/
/ Lagavulin’s tawny shine
/
/ claret’s memories of oak
/
/ that never took to shingle beach
/
/ or saw its…
Poets need not - by
Inspiration? Bell rings, penny drops, / the light-bulb goes on and tops / the not-good-enough idea that went before?…