Getting a letter makes me dizzy;
Drinking raki makes me dizzy;
Going on a trip makes me dizzy;
What’s the meaning of all this, I don’t know;
Someone singing “My Kazım”
In Üsküdar
Makes me dizzy.
translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat
Month: April 2015
waiting for dawn
by the shore
chill on bones
birds in air
waves against rock
wind on face
soon
night will end
and dawn
will light the world
again
like some horror movie
it is always
the same
like a specter
in some horror movie
there you appear
stalking me down
once again
words on the page
the pain
in my heart
words on a page
I should not
have read
seeing you
I saw you
again
the throbbing
is there
still
so strong
I wonder
did it ever go
away
every time
there is that crack
in my chest
every time
you cross your legs
and hold my gaze
if only you knew
every time
this time around
this lifetime
a summer a fall
a winter a spring
let it come
sights worth seeing
this time around
again
memories and faces
there they are
again
and again
fading in
fading out
those faces
these feelings
long buried
resurfacing
once twice more
Spring Morning by Meng Hao-jan
Spring, napped, unconscious of the dawn.
Everywhere, birdsong.
Night sounded, wind, and rain.
How many petals, now, are fallen?
translated by J.P. Seaton
advice
keep your heart buoyant
your resolve steady
listen to the clouds
drift across the sky
Leonard Durso 