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A memorandum-book does not, provided it is neatly written, appear confused to an illiterate person, or to the owner who understands it thoroughly, but to any other person able to read it appears to be inextricably confused.

James Clerk Maxwell


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Monday, March 17th, 2014

🦋 3 más

2 poemas con referencias biblicas --

No me parece tan necesario
Estar siempre listo
Para lo que venga;
Mejor, pienso, que se deje
Sorprender
Y hasta confundir
Por lo nuevo.
Mejor, pienso, volver,
Y otra vez volver,
En este momento señalado
Para toda cosa
Debajo del sol.


insensible
por The Modesto Kid

insensible
como las cenizas
a la llama

arde

y miro la paja en el ojo ajeno
y no atiendo la viga en el mío propio

ayúdame a mí, por favor --
me desespero
tengo viga en el ojo
lo reconozco
¿es ceniza? ¿es llama? arde.
ilumina

espérame a mí momento, por favor --
espera
a confesarme

inmediato,
instantáneo

arde.


...y uno sino:

Vuelve ahora atrás,
quien me una vez
ávidamente buscó:
me persigue,
quien iba corriendo.

posted evening of March 17th, 2014: 1 response
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Sunday, March 16th, 2014

🦋 La pregunta

por J Osner

La pregunta se plantea
ahora
de hacer verso,
de narrar poesía --
¿puedes conjuntarles
tus palabras
como melodía? puedes
describir la imagen
al otro lado de tus párpados
del mundo
entero?

posted morning of March 16th, 2014: Respond
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Saturday, March 15th, 2014

🦋 Pink Flamingos

posted evening of March 15th, 2014: Respond
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🦋 Mudo

por J Osner

Ninguna palabra
puedo decir
intento decir
que me enmudezco
que me quedo quieto
que me detengo.

There's not a word
that I can say
I mean to say
that I'm made mute,
I'm quiet,
that I stop.

posted evening of March 15th, 2014: Respond
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🦋 Two songs to be considered side-by-side

Consider a jam from "You Better Run" into "Return the Gift".


You're welcome.

posted afternoon of March 15th, 2014: Respond
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🦋 Tres poemas cortos y espontáneos, sin título

por J Osner


Tenemos defectos todos nosotros
Y razones también
Para seguir nuestros senderos.
Tenemos ojos todos nosotros
Casi todos
Ojos que no pueden ver
Por la senda abajo.


Siguen en sus senderos
Los pájaros que volaban
En la última luz
Del anochecer:
Buscan nido.


(a Marta Aponte)

Las paredes de mi casa se extienden
largas y derechas,
dijo la loca. Se cruzan
en ángulos rectos. Afuera
lo que deseo. Afuera también
lo que temo.

Las paredes de mi casa,
dijo la loca,
me rodean a mí
y todos míos. Salgo.

posted morning of March 15th, 2014: Respond

Sunday, March 9th, 2014

🦋 Mateo 7

3 Y, ¿por qué miras la paja que está en el ojo de tu hermano,
y no echas de ver la viga que está en tu propio ojo?

4 O, ¿cómo dirás a tu hermano: Déjame sacar la paja de tu ojo,
y he aquí la viga en tu propio ojo?

5 ¡Hipócrita! Saca primero la viga de tu propio ojo,
y entonces verás bien para sacar la paja del ojo de tu hermano.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,
but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye;
and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;
and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

posted afternoon of March 9th, 2014: 1 response
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Saturday, March 8th, 2014

🦋 Lo que falta

Mantener enteras las cosas

por Mark Strand
tr. Jeremy Osner
con consulta a Ludvila Calvo-Leyva


Soy la ausencia
del campo
en el campo.
Así es
siempre.
A dondequiera que estoy
soy lo que falta.

Al avanzar
divido el aire
y siempre
entra el aire otra vez
para llenar los vacíos
que ha dejado mi cuerpo.

Tenemos todos motivos
para movernos.
Me muevo
para que se mantengan enteras las cosas.

posted afternoon of March 8th, 2014: 1 response
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🦋 Canto funebre

from Funeral oration, at the death of Joaquín Pasos

by Carlos Martinez Rivas
tr. Jeremy Osner


The drum beat echoing across
the little parade ground,
as if we were at the funeral of some Hero:
that's how I'd like to begin. And just
as must be done, in these Rituals of Death, I'd like
to forget his death; to look to his life --
to the lives of all the heroes now extinguished,
heroes who just like him lit up the night down here --

for many is the young poet who has died in our time.

Across the centuries they call out and we hear
their voices blazing, their distant canticle --
from the depths of the night they call out and reply.

There's not so much that we can know of them: that they were young,
that their feet strode upon this earth. That they knew how to play some instrument.
That they felt the ocean breeze across their forehead,
and looked up to the hills. They loved some girl,
and scribbled all this down til late at night, and crossed lines out,
and one day died. And now their voices blaze in the night.

posted morning of March 8th, 2014: Respond
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Thursday, March 6th, 2014

🦋 Selfie

posted evening of March 6th, 2014: Respond
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