vision

Par la force d'une cuisson mutuelle
les ingrédients deviennent amers et vieux,
La chaleur coagule les liquides ;
Qui sont comme des poussières sur une fenêtre éclairée,
Devenu "cendre morte", je serai uni au silence suprême.

Posts tagged czech

Mar 1

František Kupka (1871 - 1957) - Couple, 1909

Jan 18

“Gift” by Czeslaw Milosz

A day so happy.

Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.

Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.

There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.

I knew no one worth my envying him.

Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.

To think that once I was the same man did not

… embarrass me.

In my body I felt no pain.

When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails.

Jan 2

Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902-1980) - Des cris, des rires, 1959

Galerie Kodl, Praha, Czech

Dec 20

“Autumn” by Miroslav Holub (1923-1998)

And it is all over.

No more sweetpeas,
no more wide-eyed bunnies
dropping from the sky.

Only
a reddish boniness
under the sun of hoarfrost,
a thievish fog,
an insipid solution of love,
hate
and crowing.

But next year
larches will try
to make the land full of larches again
and larks will try
to make the land full of larks.

And thrushes will try
to make all the trees sing,
and goldfinches will try
to make all the grass golden,

and burying beetles
with their creaky love will try
to make all the corpses
rise from the dead,

Amen.