Poem
Inuo Taguchi
NEWS FROM NOWHERE
If I say “my blood stirs and my muscles flex”that’s not seemly
my blood is calm and my flesh is at peace
like vegetation lushly growing while listening to Haydn
Souls too have downy hair
its lucidity billows in the wind
Utopia is built on a land called the moment
where stones and insects and trees are the aborigines
All my cells
wish for gods
if I were to carve and polish this very moment
there would be no pedestal on which to place it
© Translation: 2012, Takako Lento
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het bloed kolkt, het vlees danst: die uitdrukkingis niet echt van toepassing
het bloed komt tot rust het vlees ontspant
luisterend naar Haydn als woekerende planten
groeit donshaar ook op een duivel
transparant licht buigt in de wind
utopia wordt gebouwd op grond die we een oogwenk noemen
de eerste bewoners ervan: stenen, insecten, bomen
al mijn cellen
snakken naar een god
ook als ik dit ogenblik uithak en polijst
zal er geen voetstuk voor zijn
© Vertaling: 2012, Ivo Smits
© 2012, Inuo Taguchi
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NEWS FROM NOWHERE
If I say “my blood stirs and my muscles flex”that’s not seemly
my blood is calm and my flesh is at peace
like vegetation lushly growing while listening to Haydn
Souls too have downy hair
its lucidity billows in the wind
Utopia is built on a land called the moment
where stones and insects and trees are the aborigines
All my cells
wish for gods
if I were to carve and polish this very moment
there would be no pedestal on which to place it
© 2012, Takako Lento
NEWS FROM NOWHERE
If I say “my blood stirs and my muscles flex”that’s not seemly
my blood is calm and my flesh is at peace
like vegetation lushly growing while listening to Haydn
Souls too have downy hair
its lucidity billows in the wind
Utopia is built on a land called the moment
where stones and insects and trees are the aborigines
All my cells
wish for gods
if I were to carve and polish this very moment
there would be no pedestal on which to place it
© 2012, Takako Lento
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