Charles BUKOWSKI, As the Poems Go
realize that you've created very
little.
[...]
C. Bukowski
La fatalità delle donne (II)
sul suo petto setoso: una donna rossastra
fitta, come in un prato, nel pelo. Là sotto
rugge a volte un tumulto, che la donna sussulta.
La giornata passava in bestemmie e silenzi.
Se la donna non fosse un tatuaggio, ma viva
aggrappata sul petto peloso, quest'uomo
muggirebbe più forte, nella piccola cella.
Occhi aperti, distesi nel letto taceva.
Un respiro profondo di mare saliva
sal suo corpo di grandi ossa salde: era steso
come sopra una tolda. Pesava sul letto
come chi s'è svegliato e potrebbe balzare.
Li suo corpo, salato di schiuma, grondava
un sudore solare. La piccola cella
non bastava all'ampiezza d'una sola sua occhiata.
A vedergli le mani si pensava alla donna.

Sherilyn Fenn
ALTER EGO
From morning till evening he saw the tattoo
on his silky chest: a russet woman,
lying concealed in the field of hair. Beneath there was
sometimes chaos, she leapt up suddenly.
The day passed in cursing and silence.
If the woman were no tattoo but
clung alive to his hairy chest, he'd
cry out more loudly in the little cell.
Wide-eyed, he lay silently stretched on the bed.
A deep sealike sigh swelled
the big solid bones in his body: he lay
as on a boat-deck. He rested heavily on the bed
like someone who on waking might jump up.
His body, salted with spray, poured out
sweat full of sunshine. The little cell
was not big enough for a single one of his glances.
His hands showed he was thinking of the woman.
traduzione al inglese d'origine sconosciuto
petty things

my heart is made out of pictures
minimal pictures of remains
my heart is a box of fragments
slowly trickling back, pervading fragments
like tempera on the canvas of myself
petty things settled in my eyes
then, dripping without aim
then, threaded to give me borders
petty things move and say
but definitely move
thus the big crime is performed,
made out of a myriad of petty crimes
like stepping on the bus
every morning
Installation: Annette Messager
CAMILLE CLAUDEL (II): L'ESILIO
mi sono tagliata le unghie, per non stracciarmi,
mi sono tagliata le dita, per non scavare,
mi sono tagliata le mani, per non colpirmi.
Con la lingua di scolpire i tuoi occhi
colsi la mia memoria per svuotarla di te.
Nel buco rimasto mi sono sfondata,
stringendo nell'aria di discesa
i resti del naufragio.
Rovine tenerissime, stelle deflagrate,
così sole da perdere gli specchi
e non guardarsi mai più.
Film: Camille Claudel, Bruno Nuytten, 1989.
Camille Claudel (I) ; la passion de l'ombre et le minimal centimètre
Pathos (I) e Gli occhi (di Modigliani)
make me space
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild, 2000
make me space when it hurts,
let me cross the in-between space before the dark.
make me space just before it comes, the unnamed.
I'll not sit and witness, I'll dissolve in that glimpse of it,
alien to me, forbidden to the useless stranger.
I'll get soaked and drenched and drowned and you,
dissolving and receding calmly, you'll keep quiet.
I, fully awake on the unbearable surface
of your initial terror,
our burning tremor whirling up my axes.
I, eyes wide open and then blind
to the map of your successive country.
does it snow?
no more pedestrian lights,
no more the loud, yelling sound of traffic.
make me space on the verge of loss,
be aware of my holding my breath,
looking at the train that goes,
ignoring me, forlorn, forsaken.
while I adjust the plastic band,
stubbornly, around my forearm,
pulling with my teeth like this addict I'm,
praying to get the pang
triggered
by the unerring syringe of perplexity.
L'ORIGINE DEL COSMO
YVES KLEIN
VERRÀ LA MORTE E AVRÀ I TUOI OCCHI
C. Pavese dixit




