Naomi Shihab Nye, Dave Eggers, Jack Kerouac, Carl Hiaasen, Edward Albee

De Amerikaanse dichteres en schrijfster Naomi Shihab Nye werd geboren op 12 maart 1952 in St. Louis, Missouri. Zie ook mijn blog van 12 maart 2009 en ook mijn blog van 12 maart 2010.

Hidden

If you place a fern
under a stone
the next day it will be
nearly invisible
as if the stone has
swallowed it.

If you tuck the name of a loved one
under your tongue too long
without speaking it
it becomes blood
sigh
the little sucked-in breath of air
hiding everywhere
beneath your words.

No one sees
the fuel that feeds you.

 

Making a Fist 

For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.

“How do you know if you are going to die?”
I begged my mother.
We had been traveling for days.
With strange confidence she answered,
“When you can no longer make a fist.”

Years later I smile to think of that journey,
the borders we must cross separately,
stamped with our unanswerable woes.
I who did not die, who am still living,
still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,
clenching and opening one small hand.

 

Naomi Shihab Nye (St. Louis,12 maart 1952)

 

 

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Kathrin Schmidt, Henrike Heiland, M. A. Numminen, Gabriele d’Annunzio, De Schoolmeester

De Duitse dichteres en schrijfster Kathrin Schmidt werd geboren op 12 maart 1958 in Gotha. Zie ook mijn blog van 12 maart 2009en ook mijn blog van 12 maart 2010.

 

ein, aus


gebe ich einen laut ins luft?
zupfe ich aus dem luft einen laut?
das luft steht ausgegossen wie spülicht (höricht, fühlicht)
zwischen den hauszeilen, deren knotige schriften
ins verlassene driften zum ortsrand hin, nebelgelenke
verbinden die domizile der wachsamkeit, das luft hat den fuß
in der tür, die hand an der klinke, schwelt, sickert ins
fadenkreuz der gebogenen brauen, von wo es ein
katzsprung ist ins kalkül, durch den kopf
schießt das luft mit gedoppelter flinte, die tinte
vergessens löscht aus, was da war, war da was?,
das luft wird naß vom gebrauch, schmaucht
aus den lungen ins spülicht zurück, fühl ich,
hör ich, mein laut hat den ausgang gefunden,
ins luft, aus luft

 

 

Kathrin Schmidt (Gotha, 12 maart 1958)

 

 

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Irving Layton, Helga Goetze, Françoise d’Eaubonne, Antony Deschamps, Sergej Michalkov

De Canadese dichter en schrijver Irving Layton werd geboren als Israel Pincu Lazarovici op 12 maart 1912 in Tîrgu Neamt, Roemenië. Zie ook mijn blog van 12 maart 2007 en ook mijn blog van 12 maart 2009 en ook mijn blog van 12 maart 2010.

Berry Picking

Silently my wife walks on the still wet furze
Now darkgreen the leaves are full of metaphors
Now lit up is each tiny lamp of blueberry.
The white nails of rain have dropped and the sun is free.

And whether she bends or straightens to each bush
To find the children’s laughter among the leaves
Her quiet hands seem to make the quiet summer hush–
Berries or children, patient she is with these.

I only vex and perplex her; madness, rage
Are endearing perhaps put down upon the page;
Even silence daylong and sullen can then
Enamor as restraint or classic discipline.

So I envy the berries she puts in her mouth,
The red and succulent juice that stains her lips;
I shall never taste that good to her, nor will they
Displease her with a thousand barbarous jests.

How they lie easily for her hand to take,
Part of the unoffending world that is hers;
Here beyond complexity she stands and stares
And leans her marvelous head as if for answers.

No more the easy soul my childish craft deceives
Nor the simpler one for whom yes is always yes;
No, now her voice comes to me from a far way off
Though her lips are redder than the raspberries.

 

Irving Layton 12 maart 1912 – 4 janauri 2006)

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