A Fragment - (Jim Krull)

How'd if inscribed incorrectly   ,   (oh there

                    Is never enough, A Payer pays

                    Again   , to the salmon-fish go up   ,

        Though in the toe of the water   ,

        On the river Industry               for symbols (un-)leading   ,

                    In a part-fool's rhyme, that if

                    Had (that)) aggain   , (haven't  ,  how easily

Forgotten (after, should it not be obvious enough)  , though she

(Not any of that portions previous were her portions   )

                                                        Be in a line   )

                                                        I may.

                                                                        121710

A translation from Le Marteau sans mâitre (The Hammer without a master) - René Char

  La Rose Violente

Oeil en transe miroir muet

Comme je m’approche je m’éloigne

Bouée au créneau

Tête contre tête tout oublier

Jusqu’au coup d’épaul en plein coeur

La rose violente

Des amants nulls et transcendants.

  The Violent Rose

Eye in a trance, mirror mute,

As I approach I withdraw, 
Bouy on the battlement;

Head against head, all to forget,

'Til the shoulder blow upon the heart,

The violent rose

Of null and transcendent lovers.

René Char, from Le Marteau sans mâitre,

                           (The Hammer without a master)

Translated by Eliot Cardinaux 12/19, ’10

Turtle and Outcast (Eliot Cardinaux)

Nature is a rock that can be entered
through an outcast’s crop of ragweed.
Already he has found the substance to be chilled. 
And in the cup the smoke has turned
30 years, 40 years, 50 years back
to where the tree made its root,
and bird-song has reached across the universe
into the outcast’s ear and through his garden.

Let’s leave this place, it’s dull,
cries the outcast into the black hole.
And he and the turtle he had known all along
started off for that long forsaken home.


                        December 15^th, ’10