the Modern bird

                                                        Everybody loves a martyr in
   blue pajamas, throwing up in her white, white house. Your fault
   her cakes won't rise and birds find the windows violently.

the Modern bird

      
       a street
there is

where strange birds       purr


***


BIRDPILE.


"BIRDPILE" in flight? or
grounded (dead)?


Meaning
brutally dragged in.

the Modern bird

the birds in the air are fine

the Modern bird

when eyes / are humming birds who'll tie them with a lead string?

New World Translations

"I fever I fever I fever I fever I"


Alto Poepjes, Holland, 1995
Translated by Daniel Bailey

(via New World Poetry)

Reading

"[W]hen we are dealing with things like racism or identity as forged by race and ethnicity, we're not allowed room to feel more than one emotion. We can't feel disgust AND delight. We can't take something seriously and joke about it without one reaction canceling out or beating the snot out of the other. And that shit is alienating."

~Jenny Zhang, via Coldfront


Or, having a woman's body. or being the encapsulated cells of impression. or being the shape of tables stacked on other tables, the correct perspective being the one where nothing slides.

New World Translations

Puromunaado2

Season is glove is movement

           

            report (oh!)  wait       flowers—

faaaddddiiinnnng

afternoon                                 3ohclock

                        not even brown, gray

                                                   (let you in?...)

[eye]<--hehe, love         is

probably not a bug or an eyelid

also not a promise       given this abundant treasure

Chika Sagawa (1911-1935), Japan

(anti)-translated by Sawako Nakayasu, 2011

“translated” by Sarah Cook, 2012 



(via New World Poetry)