Poem
Ruth Lasters
WOOD
Did you ever seethe aftermath of fireworks? The branches of smoke, not
the spark, but the fluffy trunks in exactly the same
place where rockets just burst open. The air wood
that after they’ve died down emerges for you
for a few seconds. The residual value that is actually more splendid than
the intended beauty of crackling coloured fire. So is too,
after you have sighed that, despite everything, unfaithfulness, you
still love me, what afterwards hangs in the room in a more penetrating,
terrible, unwitting way more beautifully: the irreparability
between us.
WOUD
WOUD
Of je het achterafvan vuurwerk ooit zag. De takken van rook, niet
de vonken, maar de pluizige stammen op precies dezelfde
plaats waar net nog pijlen openknalden. Het luchtwoud
dat daar na het doven enkele seconden voor je
ontstaat. De restwaarde die eigenlijk grootser is dan
de bedoelde fraaiheid van spetters kleurvuur. Zo is ook,
nadat je hebt gezucht dat je me ondanks alles, ontrouw nog
liefhebt, wat daarna in de kamer hangt op een doordringendere,
verschrikkelijke, ongewilde manier mooier: de onherstelbaarheid
tussen ons.
© 2015, Ruth Lasters
From: Lichtmeters
Publisher: Polis,
From: Lichtmeters
Publisher: Polis,
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WOOD
Did you ever seethe aftermath of fireworks? The branches of smoke, not
the spark, but the fluffy trunks in exactly the same
place where rockets just burst open. The air wood
that after they’ve died down emerges for you
for a few seconds. The residual value that is actually more splendid than
the intended beauty of crackling coloured fire. So is too,
after you have sighed that, despite everything, unfaithfulness, you
still love me, what afterwards hangs in the room in a more penetrating,
terrible, unwitting way more beautifully: the irreparability
between us.
From: Lichtmeters
WOOD
Did you ever seethe aftermath of fireworks? The branches of smoke, not
the spark, but the fluffy trunks in exactly the same
place where rockets just burst open. The air wood
that after they’ve died down emerges for you
for a few seconds. The residual value that is actually more splendid than
the intended beauty of crackling coloured fire. So is too,
after you have sighed that, despite everything, unfaithfulness, you
still love me, what afterwards hangs in the room in a more penetrating,
terrible, unwitting way more beautifully: the irreparability
between us.
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