Sunday, April 1, 2012

Jan Skácel - Daughters of song

Jan Skácel - Daughters of song
(Dcery písně)

My night is the darkest
where morning begins
and the little birds' horror beneath the windows
starts in full wolume.

Then I get up
And deprived of the previous day
I go to the bathroom.
Going there I am ashamed among my furniture.

Once again I am only myself
robbed to such extent
that to eternity I hang on a thread.
Everything embarrassingly reminds me
that yesterday I was verbatim perpendicular.

Water sets me free for a moment
From the white porcelain with my nail
I scratch out a hair
Too much yours.
It is again bad, even worse.

But then I remember again
and drinking my coffee I recite the verses,
slowly, hardly, to make them sustain :

"On bird-twitter he gets up
and all doughters of song cry."

2 comments:

  1. This is lovely. What about Modre Portugal? Have you translated that one?

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  2. Not yet, maybe later. All that I have done so far you can see here - nothing more exists as yet.

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