Author: Pablo Saborio

La consolación

baba_de_luz

Nada me obliga a detenerme
aquí en este minuto
desistir la infancia del futuro
nada me obliga
torcer en nudo el pasado;
dejar nublado el presente
que acaricio como una pasiva
espalda de nube.

Pero me detengo a limpiarle
la baba que suelta la luz, y a hacerle
más campo al vacío.

La consolación está
en confundir la razón
con una conglomeración
de apariencias que cicatricen
tan rápido como posible
en símbolos
pero no en memoria.

¿Por qué la mecánica
de saltar allá y quedar
atrapado como otra aurora
entre racimo de noches?

Les digo por qué. Porque
nada me detiene
cuando estiro el mundo
como un llanto de cuero
y soplo polvo de estrellas
sobre sus ruinas dormidas.

Poesía Contemporánea

A wordless lump of dream

little_soul

I placed in my mouth
a wordless lump of dream
[          ]
and earth was clean
for a while
with little-souls
gliding-without
the-weight-of-shadows
hours deep in music
while opinion was
a remote latitude
and the future had no
literature or comets
and the ebb of morning
was an impossible mutation
of white and sound,
I had been masticating
this wordless lump of
dream
{          }
and faces had meadows
with rich fogs
cutting the edge
of smiles and drifting
through silver breezes
and the earth
was clean
for a while.

Contemporary Poetry

sic erat scriptum

What no one will remember

(Part vii)

 

Photographs taken from the following books:

1.  History of Modern Art, Arnason
2. Our Oriental Heritage, Durant
3. Animal Faith, Santayana
4. Philosophical Investigations,Wittgenstein 
5. The Poetical Works of Byron

 

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Monte Hermón

recuerdo_del_dios

ángeles cayendo (acrílico )
crear de forma visual
la perfección
esa que todos deseamos
contorsionarse con dolor
extremo, dolor en el cuello
en el músculo interior
en la arteria perfecta que lleva
el mensaje al alma

sí, esa es la nueva imagen
la nueva posibilidad
en el arte

la congoja ejemplificada
con un pincel de púrpura
un dolor que parte raíz
entre lo humano y divino
un dolor que levanta olas
en la profundidad del hueso

ángeles cayendo
acrílico y abstracto
dejar palpitando en lienzo
una sombra que es sangre
y solo recuerdo de dios.

Poesía Contemporánea

a minute’s peace

minute_of_peace

when 3:13
it was foggy
and too careless
to measure the vastness of solitude

when 3:15
a slither of divine ache
clashed against a clump
of earth
probably though
it was against my
awfully wakeful heart.

when 3:17
my extended hand
kneads the air
and the eyes slough
a peel of memory
towards a new gloriousness

when 3:29
I show my membership card
staff smiles. They know me.
I ask: what’s the time?
3:29, they say.

3: 38
the southernmost minute’s gone

3:39
without consenting to our isolated reasons

when 3:43
I begin reading:

Religion is the last subject that the intellect beings to understand. In our youth we may have resented, with proud superiority, its cherished incredibilities; in our less confident years we marvel at its prosperous survival in a secular and scientific age, its patient resurrections after whatever deadly blows by Epicurus, or Lucretius, or Lucian, or Machiavelli, or Hume, or Voltaire. What are the secrets of this resilience?

when 3:45
I don’t want to smear eternity
with another coat of futility

when 3:59
got up comically
confusedly
coquettishly
can’t wait for spring to come

when 4:01
outside again
ready to concoct
some opaque purpose.

when 4:05
with a beer
throwing away the wreaths
of opinion that cling to my hair.

when 4:26
murmuring:
everyman’s angelic grave

4:26
surrender the surrounding suffering

4:27
for a sparse minute of peace.

 

Contemporary Poetry

The upper half (photography)

What no one will remember

(Part vi)

 

Homer
Menander
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Phidias
Alexander the Great
Chrysippus
Epicurus
Cleanthes
Plato
Socrates
Homer ii
Zeno the Stoic

Photographs taken at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, April 11, 2013.

 

Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptotek_Museum

 

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(léase humano)

vacio_humano

El hombre (léase humano)
es una figura
confundida por la luz
se puede decir que es
un látigo de humo,
fuerza y evanescencia.

El hombre es un golpe
duro sobre la tierra
dejando atrás un eco
invisible y casi triste.

El hombre recoge
un puñado de tierra
y le dice, eres
mi única razón.

El hombre
ha aprendido
solo una cosa
de la historia:
cómo esperar

El hombre (léase humano)
espera que llegue
la señal para dejar
de ser hombre.

El hombre
no ve el hueco
pero lo siente.

Lo siente.

 

 

 

Poesía Contemporánea

towards a quiet curve

language_of_clouds

The first day the mechanism
was hard to endure
as kissing one’s objectives goodbye.
Really, you’re lost and sick with ennui.
If years are all that’s left, better die
in a second. Ever after, total laugh,
in a blot of obscurity, forever,
without ever understanding or
being understood or caring whether
life was worth it, because once you die,
your theory of the universe, the entirety
of what was known returns to a pool
of nondescript silence. Rejoice, the only witness
to absurdity is dead. Soon, in a flash and no one
can change that. No god, no medicine, no spirituality,
no delusion. Postponement, yes. But death and its
miracle is near. Don’t grieve, rejoice, like hot flames
atop a mirror looking down at their fleeting brilliance;
rejoice as the sailor – which is everyone –in a fever
crossing the sea of life, singing with a sigh
in the language of the clouds.

Contemporary Poetry

paradise raw

Leigh_Ledare_Charlottenborg_copenhagen

I dreamt last night that god had reincarnated into a stone.
How it happened is hard to explain
but it was in the US, of all places!
Then I started scratching off the light.
There was nothing left except the immoral space of neutrality
and I began to move amongst cocks
and paradise raw.
I began writing a poem, in the dream
every last stanza
rhyming with the word

thaw

I hardly ever rhyme my verse.
It was strange.
That god would have chosen
the US, of all places.

But I can’t seem to let it go.
The poem, with 4 or 5 stanzas.
Alliteration aligned cosmically.
Even with shadows circling
a verb. I woke up at noon, processing
the real. Honestly, I did not want to wake
up chained to daylight.

But now I’m at
Leigh Ledare’s exhibition
trying to recall
what kind of poem could I
have written amongst cocks
and paradise raw.

 

Contemporary Poetry