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ode to the onion, pablo neruda

28 Saturday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, Spanish, Translation

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oda a la cebolla, Ode to the Onion, Pablo Neruda, Poetry, Spanish translation

Onion,
crystalline sack,
your beauty formed,
petal after petal,
of luminous scales
that increased you
and your belly grew with dew
in the mystery of the
dark earth.
Underground
this mystery
occurred
and when your cumbersome
green stem burst forth,
and your leaves were born
like sabers
in the garden,
the earth heaped up
her power
showing your naked
transparency,
and as the withdrawn sea
lifting Aphrodite’s breasts
duplicated the magnolia,
so did the earth
fashion you,
onion
clear as a planet,
and destined
to bedazzle,
constant constellation,
round rose of water,
upon
the tabletops
of the poor.

Generously,
you undo
your globe of freshness
in devout consummation
of the cooking pot,
and the crystal shred
in the flaming heat
of the oil
is transformed into
a curled feather of gold.

Again, I will recall how fertile
is your influence on
the love of the salad,
and it seems that
the sky must aid
by giving you hail’s
clever form
to celebrate your
chopped brightness
on the borderlands
of the tomato.
But within reach
of our communal hands
sprinkled with oil,
dusted
with a nip sea salt,
you kill the hunger
of field-laborers
on the hard road.

Star of the oppressed,
pixie godmother
wrapped
in delicate
paper, you rise from
the ground
infinite, intact, perfect
as any astral seed,
and on chopping you up
the kitchen knife
will raise one single tear
without agony.

You force us to cry
but never hurt us.
I have praised all
the world that exists,
but to me, you
onion, you are
more handsome
than any bird
of dazzling feathers,
a heavenly orb,
a platinum bowl,
an unmoving dance
of the snowy windflower
and the aroma of
wet earth burns
in your luminous being.

—- translated by ZJC

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Oda a la cebolla

Cebolla
luminosa redoma,
pétalo a pétalo
se formó tu hermosura,
escamas de cristal te acrecentaron
y en el secreto de la tierra
oscura se redondeó tu vientre
de rocío.
Bajo la tierra
fue el milagro
y cuando apareció
tu torpe tallo verde,
y nacieron
tus hojas como espadas
en el huerto,
la tierra acumuló su poderío
mostrando tu desnuda
transparencia,
y como en Afrodita
el mar remoto
duplicó la magnolia
levantando sus senos,
la tierra
así te hizo,
cebolla,
clara como un planeta,
y destinada
a relucir,
constelación constante,
redonda rosa de agua,
sobre
la mesa
de las pobres gentes.

Generosa
deshaces
tu globo de frescura
en la consumación
ferviente de la olla,
y el jirón de cristal
al calor encendido
del aceite
se transforma en rizada
pluma de oro.

También recordaré
cómo fecunda
tu influencia el amor
de la ensalada
y parece que el cielo
contribuye
dándote fina forma
de granizo
a celebrar tu claridad
picada
sobre los hemisferios
de un tomate.
Pero al alcance
de las manos del pueblo,
regada con aceite,
espolvoreada
con un poco de sal,
matas el hambre
del jornalero en el
duro camino.
Estrella de los pobres,
hada madrina
envuelta en delicado
papel, sales del suelo,
eterna, intacta, pura
como semilla de astro,
y al cortarte
el cuchillo en la cocina
sube la única lágrima
sin pena.
Nos hiciste llorar
sin afligirnos.

Yo cuanto existe celebré,
cebolla,
pero para mí eres
más hermosa que un ave
de plumas cegadoras,
eres para mis ojos
globo celeste, copa de
platino,
baile inmóvil
de anémona nevada

y vive la fragancia
de la tierra
en tu naturaleza
cristalina.

the secret of my obsession with the living dead

27 Friday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Erotic, Humor, Poetry, sonnet

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cutting, despair, dull angels, hot dead bodies, Humor, joints crack, necrophilia, poem, Poetry, sonnet, zombies

 

laughing with chunks of life
stuck in my hair — “just another
midtown addict” by perks

But your body does make odd noise: a cry,
a hiss, a whimper, a groan. What crackles?
a slap, a spark, a moan, a grim-toothed sigh
pushed out from between cracked lips. Dull angels
can’t fuck anywhere as good as dirty
corpses, submerged in toxic waste goo, breathed
alive. Hungry for flesh. We’re all hungry
for something. Despair. I’ve lost hope and seethed
with rage and I’ve cut myself just to feel.
But you, who can’t feel, still feel that deep need
to feed. We all feed. You said I crack you
up. As in pieces. As in when you kneel
your joints crumble. Lover, take me in, feed
but don’t bite. I’ll make your green flesh turn blue.

waterloo sucking

27 Friday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Erotic, Poetry, sonnet

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erotic pain, kink, poem, Poetry, SM/BD, sonnet, Subs and Doms, Waterloo

A man stepped out of fantasy, where you
called him Master and he called you Bad Slut;
ending always in your own waterloo:
sucking the cock of a man you hate. What
tedious repetition, exactly
unlike sunlight that streams with grace. I love
kink, too, but Doms seem to be creepily
similar. Drop the whip and the kid glove.
I will mark you, there will be pain. Your streaked
gaping cheeks across the vacuum of space,
into a tale where my shadow assumes
its face. I have no needs, save that you piqued
my interest in your need for pain. With grace,
love, I will dominate you from the tomb.

notes:

The French emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, was finally defeated at the town of Waterloo. To say that someone has “met their Waterloo,” means that they have had an unexpected defeat. As in that ABBA song of the same name, “Waterloo/ knowing my fate is to be with you”

horny goat weed

26 Thursday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Erotic, Poetry, sonnet

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Greek myth, homoerotic, horny goat weed, Pan, poem, Poetry, satyr, sonnet

 

 

 

He would look like a girl, save for that curl
of a beard, that fine, thick hair, those antlers.

He skips girlishly but in ways no girl
ever skips. When he kisses he offers

you all of Arcadia, for his tongue
is far sharper than his pipes. During sex

you catch him maa-ing with pleasure. He’s young,
bound in the response of the moon, reflex

of the stars. Imagine heavy, round limes
lost in the leaves. When you swallow his cum

he melts into you like myth. His singing
is of worlds you will never see. Sometimes

you hear his hooves clicking in the kitchen,
his rude goat cock hanging silent, dreaming.

glee of the wind

26 Thursday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, sonnet

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cold is evil, daft, glee of the wind, Lake Michigan, poem, Poetry, sonnet, winter

Frozen Lake Michigan, a flat ocean
of ice; a sight that I don’t want but will
come and find me, like the night to the sun,
or two headlights to a deer. We say “chill,”
we say “cold,” but what barefooted pilgrim
could walk these beaches and still be happy?
What warm sympathy could the winter’s grim
love have? hidden in our houses the glee
of the wind is both orderly and daft.
Singing but what does that mean? Storm shamans
might know, but there are none left to answer.
Winter! I would defeat you if my craft
would do so; but such magic and options
aren’t mine. So I must live with your burdens.

faith is faith

26 Thursday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Illustration and art, Poetry, sonnet

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art, faith is faith, poem, Poetry, sonnet, Starry Night

window

What was it like on your first starry night?
the one thing we all have at least one of.
If you’re old enough to understand light,
to be able to raise your head above
your chin then you’ve seen stars. You were not born
back then, for me. And all the love and hate
and small words we use to describe well-worn
emotions meant nothing while all the great
weight of the heavens hung over my head.
How is it that just then the child is sure
that we are part of something far larger
than just ourselves, but later call faith dread?
Before faith was a faith is faith. Before
we had words for enemy or lover.

metal never forgives

25 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, sonnet

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blackberry, fairy tale, fragile play thing, kiss, poem, Poetry, sonnet, tryst, winter

all the ancient classic fairy tales
have always been scary and dark.
—- Helena Bonham Carter

How much cold can you abide? If you kissed
me now you’d hear how the wind mews and talks
to you. Across the tundra of this tryst
you called me, like the warmth of a snow fox
in the endless night. I come from the west,
dreaming about blackberry juice; roughly
watching it trickle down your chin. Tongues pressed
tip to tip, although warm flesh on icy
metal never forgives. Little candle,
moppet, June spark, I would lick the hoarfrost
from your breasts, if I could; I think you’d just
sputter, though, warmth being such a fragile
play thing. How far will you go, my star-crossed
flame? The winter dark is my name for lust.

trying to explain the internet to my dead aunt

25 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, sonnet

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aunts, butch-femme, digital age, finger fucking, GLBT, poem, Poetry, prayer, progress, sonnet, Stonewall

The ghosts of my hard aunts all called themselves
butch and worked the graveyard shift making jeeps.
I am a fey thing, in love with bookshelves
more than pool and Patsy Cline, one who keeps
family close in this wild new age. Type
in “aunt,” “jeep,” “butch,” and, “Squirting on my truck’s
gearshift,” appears. Aunties, my waiting past,
where does Stonewall fall when these finger fucks
cock sucker blues can be found anywhere?
The dead give little reply. I’ve built worlds
on their broad shoulders. Love is a small price.
Just know your daughters and sons are a prayer
unasked for but here all the same. Your girls
and boys love you, I hope that will suffice.

yes, sin

24 Tuesday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, sonnet

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Berber, Coast of High Barbary, djinn, North Africa, poem, Poetry, sin, sonnet, tramp steamer

Slowly, summer waking, you rise, lovesick
beastie, cacophonous, the way all fucks
before dawn make noise. We’re not awake, slick
in dream, wet under the sheets. Your stomach’s
end, the last stopping point of pubic bone
before the drop off and the hard column
rising before me. Wheeling in a blown
sky we are only voices. Come, we cum,
sea fire berries so ripe we cast shadows
on the waves like a Berber tale. Slowly,
with North Africa’s heat, rise. Are you sin?
Yes, sin. You pull away, crying like crows
denied their due. I’ll sail to Barbary,
aboard a tramp steamer, The Jianzhen.

what sleeps inside

24 Tuesday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, sonnet

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bitch, Brynhildr, dyke, hag, life's purpose, lover, poem, Poetry, queen, self-awareness, slut, softball coach, sonnet, what sleeps inside, witch

“Know thyself and all will be revealed.”
― Pamela Theresa Loertscher

Find what they would do but cannot. Find what
sleeps there, the other nature, disjointed
but still distinct. Words that we use — hag, slut,
bitch, dyke — all have their sacred counterpoints.
The witch, the lover, the queen, Brynhildr’s
shield maid who’ll stand by her side at World’s End.
There are other dreams, of course, ones that stir
sleeping souls. Rose and amber. The girlfriend
who dreamed of a necklace — white, frothy, thick
— hiding each breast — then along came a tongue
and left them slick. The soft ball coach who aches
for war like a field marshal. Be you sapphic
or straight, pink or brown, rich, poor, old or young,
tell us whats inside, what rises, what wakes.

notes:

Brynhildr : Old Norse legend name from the Nibelungenlied, queen of the Valkyries. Her name is composed of brynja, meaning “armor, coat of mail,” and hildr meaning, “battle,” from which we get: armored warrior woman.

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