Re: [CH] Open Fields invite to all
Tony Flynn (tonyflynn@value.net.nz)
Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:41:33 +1200
Hi All,
Yet another masterpiece from our own poet laureate Alex. Congratulations
again Alex
Tony Flynn. Starting this years next week.
Grandad. Retired at the beach. Bay of Plenty. New Zealand
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Silbajoris" <asilbajo@hotmail.com>
To: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
>
> OK, Jim, here I go again.
>
> (This one is a parody of Cesar Vallejo's Black Stone on a White Stone -
> which begins with "I will die in Paris when it rains." Of all these RSVP
> poetry parodies, this one's original source was the most gloomy and
> difficult to work with. I looked at a few translations, then looked over
the
> shoulders of the translators to the original in Spanish.)
>
>
>
> I will harvest habaneros, on a rainy day
> as on a day I already remember.
> I will harvest habs - and I don't run away -
> perhaps on a weekend in the close of September.
>
> It will be a weekend, because this weekend, writing
> these lines, my insides burn in disarray
> and never in my life have the penalties of biting
> too many habs been as clear, as today.
>
> El Grande has passed; he has been consumed
> by those to whom he intended no harm.
> to sauces and powders, forever he's doomed
> once I have harvested, down on the farm,
> witnessed by the weekend, and by the rain,
> and the long road I travel to gather this pain.
>
> - A