Σάββατο 25 Ιανουαρίου 2014
Παρασκευή 24 Ιανουαρίου 2014
Εκεί που λέω... Νίκος Γρηγοριάδης
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| Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution, 1957 |
Εκεί που λέω σε χόρτασα
νέα γεύση φυτρώνει στο κορμί,
τα χείλη στάζουν ηδονές καινούριες.
Σέρνομαι σαν τη φωτιά, σε ντύνω·
φουντώνουνε στο δέρμα οι πυρκαΐές
καίγομαι μες στις φλόγες σου, που ανάβεις.
Νίκος
Γρηγοριάδης, περ. Ενδοχώρα, τχ 37
Πέμπτη 23 Ιανουαρίου 2014
Δίχως κανένα νόημα... William Shakespeare
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| Αλίνα Μάτσα |
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Τετάρτη 22 Ιανουαρίου 2014
Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes... Billy Collins
| Corinne Clery in Blufftel |
First, her
tippet made of tulle,
easily
lifted off her shoulders and laid
on the back
of a wooden chair.
And her
bonnet,
the bow
undone with a light forward pull.
Then the
long white dress, a more
complicated
matter with mother-of-pearl
buttons
down the back,
so tiny and
numerous that it takes forever
before my
hands can part the fabric,
like a
swimmer’s dividing water,
and slip
inside.
You will
want to know
that she
was standing
by an open
window in an upstairs bedroom,
motionless,
a little wide-eyed,
looking out
at the orchard below,
the white
dress puddled at her feet
on the
wide-board, hardwood floor.
The
complexity of women’s undergarments
in
nineteenth-century America
is not to
be waved off,
and I
proceeded like a polar explorer
through
clips, clasps, and moorings,
catches,
straps, and whalebone stays,
sailing
toward the iceberg of her nakedness.
Later, I
wrote in a notebook
it was like
riding a swan into the night,
but, of
course, I cannot tell you everything –
the way she
closed her eyes to the orchard,
how her
hair tumbled free of its pins,
how there
were sudden dashes
whenever we
spoke.
What I can
tell you is
it was
terribly quiet in Amherst
that
Sabbath afternoon,
nothing but
a carriage passing the house,
a fly
buzzing in a windowpane.
So I could
plainly hear her inhale
when I
undid the very top
hook-and-eye
fastener of her corset
and I could
hear her sigh when finally it was unloosed,
the way
some readers sigh when they realize
that Hope
has feathers,
that reason
is a plank,
that life
is a loaded gun
that looks
right at you with a yellow eye.
Billy Collins


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