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noiembrie 29, 2023

Self portrait

seven fingers on a coffin lid

teeth buried in an out-the-way place

bird-wings nailed to the joint


I count my eyelashes

in the room where you were born


don’t take your revenge


Sjón

Translation © David McDuff 


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when the flea and the blue whale meet in the encyclopaedia

they are the same size

when the colours vanish from the national flags

the earth begins to flutter (Sjón)

Translation © David McDuff 

când puricele și balena albastră se întâlnesc în enciclopedie
au aceeasi dimensiune
când culorile dispar de pe steaguri naționale
pământul începe să fluture

The Immortal

The star i lived on is no more

the sun in whose retinue

the star moved round the world 

is no more.

the life i owned,

the life that was the blood s delight and agony,,

is no more.


that dead star among stars,

that dead sun among sun among suns,

that dead face among faces

which was mine,

i remember no more.


but i am.


Arvid Mörne

Translation © David McDuff