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🦋 Un Sentido del Lugar

Un Sentido del Lugar

por Félix Fojas
tr. Jeremy Osner

Cada poema necesita
un sentido de época y lugar.
Cada poema debe existir
en el lugar nativo de su
corazón o de su pensaje

En un momento determinado y
una fecha memorable que rebosa
de cosas actuales prolongadas
como una mosca que aterriza en una fruta
o un joven mientras besa la primera:

un perro que busca a un hueso seco
o un gato aullante
que da zarpazos a una rata aterrada.
O tal vez se esculpe el poema
simplemente del aire enrarecido

y se halle simplemente a ninguna parte.
Tenga siempre en cuenta que
El lector medio tiene miedo
de explorar a un pueblo
fantasma
y prefiere siempre oler

la aroma de alguna flor salvaje,
el sabor jugoso de una naranja,
o la lluvia de la primavera que se moje
y sus hojas verdes que hagan rumores
y bailen en las brisas.

posted evening of Saturday, June 22nd, 2013
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A SENSE OF PLACE
By Felix Fojas

Every poem must have
A sense of time and place.
Every poem must exist
In the hometown of your
Heart and in your mindscape

At a specific moment and
Memorable date, teeming
With real subjects in space
Like a fly alighting on a fruit,
A boy kissing his first girl,

A dog chasing a dry bone,
Or a caterwauling cat
Pawing a terrified mouse.
Or else the poem is merely
Carved out of rarified air

And is only found nowhere.
Always remember that
The average reader is
Afraid to explore a ghost
Town and prefers to smell

The scent of a wild flower,
An orange's juicy taste,
The wetness of spring rain,
And green leaves whispering
And swaying in the breeze.

Los Angeles
May 30, 2013

posted morning of June 23rd, 2013 by Jeremy

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