Poem
Paul Bogaert
CIRCULAR SYSTEMS
It’s the jerky wheeze from the one who pantsmakes him/her pant like that. The lower lip
curls to what a cerebral lobe
full of echoes in captivity dictates.
One pants, pauses and pants
in a causal connection. Nobody at all
is bothered by it while the panting lasts.
Later animals appear:
the scaredy-cat in the big wheel,
the fairground pony that relives everything at night.
© Translation: 2006, John Irons
CIRCULAIRE SYSTEMEN
CIRCULAIRE SYSTEMEN
Het is de wanklank uit de hijger zelfdie hem/haar zo hijgen doet. De onderlip
krult naar wat een hersenkwab
vol echo’s in gevangenschap dicteert.
Men hijgt, pauzeert en hijgt
in een oorzakelijk verband. Niemand
die er tijdens het hijgen last van heeft.
Later verschijnen dieren:
de angsthaas in het reuzenrad,
de kermispony die ’s nachts alles herbeleeft.
© 2002, Paul Bogaert
From: Circulaire systemen
Publisher: Meulenhoff, Amsterdam
From: Circulaire systemen
Publisher: Meulenhoff, Amsterdam
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CIRCULAR SYSTEMS
It’s the jerky wheeze from the one who pantsmakes him/her pant like that. The lower lip
curls to what a cerebral lobe
full of echoes in captivity dictates.
One pants, pauses and pants
in a causal connection. Nobody at all
is bothered by it while the panting lasts.
Later animals appear:
the scaredy-cat in the big wheel,
the fairground pony that relives everything at night.
© 2006, John Irons
From: Circulaire systemen
From: Circulaire systemen
CIRCULAR SYSTEMS
It’s the jerky wheeze from the one who pantsmakes him/her pant like that. The lower lip
curls to what a cerebral lobe
full of echoes in captivity dictates.
One pants, pauses and pants
in a causal connection. Nobody at all
is bothered by it while the panting lasts.
Later animals appear:
the scaredy-cat in the big wheel,
the fairground pony that relives everything at night.
© 2006, John Irons
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