Poem
Samira Negrouche
From \'Six makeshift trees around my bathtub \'
Above our heads a vertical shadow vibratesa shadow that flaps above our heads
a clandestine whistling
on the arid plain above our overloaded
heads
and while there’s that whistling that unanticipated whistling
as our buzzing skulls
a cement roof accommodates our moods
our reckless hipbones on the makeshift platform
the constellation set adrift
in the fog of the senses
you have not abandoned the dusty wreckage
vertical shadows race at the dunes’ edge
your eyes bandaged behind concave ice
anti-UV protection not guaranteed
a piano’s black keys
at the dunes’ edge
a scale that makes no sound
you have not abandoned the dusty wreckage
a vertical shadow planted on the arid plain
that you water with promises
the metallic organ that vibrates
at the edge of a lung
on the cement platform
where the musics clash
protection not guaranteed
for a makeshift totem.
© Translation: 2020, Marilyn Hacker
From: The Olives Trees’ Jazz & Other Poems
Publisher: Pleiades , Warrensburg Missouri, 2020
From: The Olives Trees’ Jazz & Other Poems
Publisher: Pleiades , Warrensburg Missouri, 2020
From \'Six makeshift trees around my bathtub\'
il y a sur nos têtes une ombre verticale qui vibre
une ombre qui claque sur nos têtes
un sifflement clandestin
dans la plaine aride sur nos têtes
encombrées
et pendant que ça siffle que rien ne prévoit que ça siffle
que nos crânes bourdonnent
c’est un toit en béton qui accueille nos humeurs
nos flancs téméraires sur la plate-forme de fortune
la constellation larguée
dans le brouillard des sens
tu n’as pas abandonné l’épave poussiéreuse
des ombres verticales courent à lisière de dunes
tes yeux emmaillotés derrière la glace concave
protection anti UV non garantie
des touches noires à lisière de dunes
un solfège sans bruit
tu n’as pas abandonné l’épave poussiéreuse
une ombre verticale plantée dans la plaine aride
que tu irrigues de promesses
l’organe métallique qui vibre à lisière de poumon
sur la plate-forme de béton
où les musiques s’entrechoquent
protection non garantie
pour un totem de fortune.
© 2017, Samira Negrouche
From: Six arbres de fortune autour de ma baignoire
Publisher: Mazette, Paris
From: Six arbres de fortune autour de ma baignoire
Publisher: Mazette, Paris
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From \'Six makeshift trees around my bathtub \'
Above our heads a vertical shadow vibratesa shadow that flaps above our heads
a clandestine whistling
on the arid plain above our overloaded
heads
and while there’s that whistling that unanticipated whistling
as our buzzing skulls
a cement roof accommodates our moods
our reckless hipbones on the makeshift platform
the constellation set adrift
in the fog of the senses
you have not abandoned the dusty wreckage
vertical shadows race at the dunes’ edge
your eyes bandaged behind concave ice
anti-UV protection not guaranteed
a piano’s black keys
at the dunes’ edge
a scale that makes no sound
you have not abandoned the dusty wreckage
a vertical shadow planted on the arid plain
that you water with promises
the metallic organ that vibrates
at the edge of a lung
on the cement platform
where the musics clash
protection not guaranteed
for a makeshift totem.
© 2020, Marilyn Hacker
From: The Olives Trees’ Jazz & Other Poems
Publisher: 2020, Pleiades , Warrensburg Missouri
From: The Olives Trees’ Jazz & Other Poems
Publisher: 2020, Pleiades , Warrensburg Missouri
From \'Six makeshift trees around my bathtub \'
Above our heads a vertical shadow vibratesa shadow that flaps above our heads
a clandestine whistling
on the arid plain above our overloaded
heads
and while there’s that whistling that unanticipated whistling
as our buzzing skulls
a cement roof accommodates our moods
our reckless hipbones on the makeshift platform
the constellation set adrift
in the fog of the senses
you have not abandoned the dusty wreckage
vertical shadows race at the dunes’ edge
your eyes bandaged behind concave ice
anti-UV protection not guaranteed
a piano’s black keys
at the dunes’ edge
a scale that makes no sound
you have not abandoned the dusty wreckage
a vertical shadow planted on the arid plain
that you water with promises
the metallic organ that vibrates
at the edge of a lung
on the cement platform
where the musics clash
protection not guaranteed
for a makeshift totem.
© 2020, Marilyn Hacker
From: The Olives Trees’ Jazz & Other Poems
Publisher: 2020, Pleiades , Warrensburg Missouri
From: The Olives Trees’ Jazz & Other Poems
Publisher: 2020, Pleiades , Warrensburg Missouri
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