Monday, April 23, 2007
La-la (Is)land
Here they stand
The thorny lovers sleeping
In the weary sand.
Their traces just like limbs
Severed and broken
Littering battlefields
Of sleepless mines
Awoken.
Here on their dusty island
Blinded lovers are a-leaping
Hand knit with hand.
Their fingers clutched
Saintly the branches
Spat out by palmtrees
In their stormy dances
Shaking the coconuts tanned.
It’s here that they reprimand
The lovers not bent, not weeping,
With hopes alight all young and bland
For saving in large bowls the rains of tears
For giving birth to deep and salty pools
For cradling away the ancient fears.
They lie lids open, oh, the soggy fools!
[With their hearts playing in a marching band.]
The thorny lovers sleeping
In the weary sand.
Their traces just like limbs
Severed and broken
Littering battlefields
Of sleepless mines
Awoken.
Here on their dusty island
Blinded lovers are a-leaping
Hand knit with hand.
Their fingers clutched
Saintly the branches
Spat out by palmtrees
In their stormy dances
Shaking the coconuts tanned.
It’s here that they reprimand
The lovers not bent, not weeping,
With hopes alight all young and bland
For saving in large bowls the rains of tears
For giving birth to deep and salty pools
For cradling away the ancient fears.
They lie lids open, oh, the soggy fools!
[With their hearts playing in a marching band.]
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Muşc-oraş
Picioarele mele ca nişte ciocǎnele
Bat asfaltul, îi fac vânǎtǎi.
Ia, ascultǎ, ce-ar fi sǎ-mi laşi
Degetele libere?
Sǎ te rǎneascǎ în gropi ca miriapozii,
Ca sǎ ajungǎ la sufletul
Tǎu moale şi noroios.
La ǎla din care cresc muguri de beton,
Rǎsar felinare; pe care,
Lacrimi murdare: curg maşini.
Picioarele mele te calcǎ pe faţǎ
Mai ales când plouǎ
În bǎrcuţele roşii cu barete.
Pescuit de poze acilea
Din ciclul:
Arborescenta,
Clipite
Şontâc-Şontâc
Poeţii pot vorbi doar pentru ei
Ca nişte invalizi
Ca nişte oameni cǎrora
Le lipsesc picioare
Şi nu li se face dor de ele.
Au ascuns piciorul pierdut
De fapt, în ciotul de lemn
Pe care merg bâjbâind
Prin propriul întuneric
Cald care miroase a
Cozonac.
Din ciclul:
Clipite,
Concluzii cu ochelari de cal
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