Je ne vois qu'infini par toutes les fenêtres - No veig sinó infinit per totes les finestres. Baudelaire
dissabte, 21 de setembre del 2019
Solo la muerte
dimecres, 11 de setembre del 2019
Botella al mar
dijous, 5 de setembre del 2019
No vull posar-me a volar
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| Palenque. Fotografia: Empar Sáez |
No vull posar-me a volar
mai més a la velocitat del temps
creure així per un instant
en la meva espera immòbil
Philippe Jaccottet, Aires
Traducció d'Antoni Clapés
Cafè Central / Eumo Editorial, 2017.
***
Je ne veux plus me poser
voler à la vitesse du temps
croire ainsi un instant
mon attente immobile
Philippe Jaccottet, Airs
Edicions Gallimard, 1967
dissabte, 17 d’agost del 2019
els ulls, déu meu
| Kampong Thom. Fotografia: Empar Sáez |
els ulls, déu meu,
com ens els van fer tancar. I ja només podíemmirar endins, cada cop més endins; i així podíem
veure
per sota d’allò que no té resposta, per sota de la
por i del dolor,
aquella dolça, estimulant humilitat,
aquella il·limitada, dòcil pobresa nostra.
Iannis Ritsos, El retorn d’Ifigènia (fragment). Dins: Fedra
Traducció de Joan Casas
Edicions de L'Albí, 2010
Privilegiat
S'ha fet de nit
divendres, 9 d’agost del 2019
Truena. Están abriéndose
Extraño suena
Antes del comienzo
dilluns, 22 de juliol del 2019
Alba
dijous, 18 de juliol del 2019
El gran poema americà
***
The Great American Poem
If this were a novel,
it would begin with a character,
a man alone on a southbound train
or a young girl on a swing by a farmhouse.
And as the pages turned, you would be told
that it was morning or the dead of night,
and I, the narrator, would describe
for you the miscellaneous clouds over the farmhouse
and what the man was wearing on the train
right down to his red tartan scarf,
and the hat he tossed onto the rack above his head,
as well as the cows sliding past his window.
Eventually —one can only read so fast—
you would learn either that the train was bearing
the man back to the place of his birth
or that he was headed into the vast unknown,
and you might just tolerate all of this
as you waited patiently for shots to ring out
in a ravine where the man was hiding
or for a tall, raven-haired woman to appear in a doorway.
But this is a poem, not a novel,
and the only characters here are you and I,
alone in an imaginary room
which will disappear after a few more lines,
leaving us no time to point guns at one another
or toss all our clothes into a roaring fireplace.
I ask you: who needs the man on the train
and who cares what his black valise contains?
We have something better than all this turbulence
lurching toward some ruinous conclusion.
I mean the sound that we will hear
as soon as I stop writing and put down this pen.
I once heard someone compare it
to the sound of crickets in a field of wheat
or, more faintly, just the wind
over that field stirring things that we will never see.
The Great American Poem
If this were a novel,
it would begin with a character,
a man alone on a southbound train
or a young girl on a swing by a farmhouse.
And as the pages turned, you would be told
that it was morning or the dead of night,
and I, the narrator, would describe
for you the miscellaneous clouds over the farmhouse
and what the man was wearing on the train
right down to his red tartan scarf,
and the hat he tossed onto the rack above his head,
as well as the cows sliding past his window.
Eventually —one can only read so fast—
you would learn either that the train was bearing
the man back to the place of his birth
or that he was headed into the vast unknown,
and you might just tolerate all of this
as you waited patiently for shots to ring out
in a ravine where the man was hiding
or for a tall, raven-haired woman to appear in a doorway.
But this is a poem, not a novel,
and the only characters here are you and I,
alone in an imaginary room
which will disappear after a few more lines,
leaving us no time to point guns at one another
or toss all our clothes into a roaring fireplace.
I ask you: who needs the man on the train
and who cares what his black valise contains?
We have something better than all this turbulence
lurching toward some ruinous conclusion.
I mean the sound that we will hear
as soon as I stop writing and put down this pen.
I once heard someone compare it
to the sound of crickets in a field of wheat
or, more faintly, just the wind
over that field stirring things that we will never see.
Billy Collins, Ballistics (2008)
dissabte, 29 de juny del 2019
Una estrella de fusta
***
EIN HOLZSTERN,blau,
aus kleinen Rauten gebaut. Heute, von
der jüngsten unserer Hände.
Das Wort, während
du Salz aus der Nacht fällst, der Blick
wieder die Windgalle sucht:
- Ein Stern, tu ihn,
tu den Stern in die Nacht.
(- In meine, in
meine.)
Paul Celan, Sprachgitter
Avalancha de hojas
El ruido algo quebrándose
| Sitges. Fotografia: Empar Sáez |
que emana del silencio
la miel de la nostalgia pegándose a los ojos
—casi
los párpados cerrados—
el mundo y su belleza entrando sólo por
una estrecha rendija —un consuelo
pequeño
y siempre insuficiente
para
el corazón—. Y ahora
dices tu
creer en lo imposible
ahora dices no
vivir con este frío
—el brasero encendido pero ese
agujero en el techo
esa grieta en la paret—.
¿Demasiado aterida? Pero qué
si me faltas.
Editorial Pre-Textos, 2018
Coral
| Léotoing. Fotografia: Empar Sáez |
Coral:
No repares en qué
parecen esas bocas
—ni siquiera en lo que
tu piensas
que articulan—. Entra hasta
su estómago. Deja que
te dijieran. Hazte carne en su carne
sé
lo que quieren decir.
Ada Salas, Descendimiento
Editorial Pre-Textos, 2018
No se oye el mar hoy en el bosque
Tuétano
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