Bartomeu Fiol Poems

For Salvador Espriu
Though we are still fearful and don't amount to much
thus knowing we are so susceptible
and are strangely incapable
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The wile of the device where artifice survives
can be considerable - and respectable.
But here, every ploughing
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‘Lucid but dislocated',
the most suitable epitaph.
‘You have disturbed my tongue,
you have stopped the flow', you could add.
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De aquí no se va nadie
LEON FELIPE

We shall not move from here - as you very well know -
on this shore close together, leaning into the blustery wind,
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Keinen verderben zu lassen, auch nicht sich selber
BERTOLT BRECHT

They are not so difficult these bumpy brows of ours
nor so difficult a dog to console, with ringworm and all.
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To my wife

Rustically solemn or in rustic laughter
Lifting heavy feet in clumsy shoes.
T.S. Eliot, East Coker
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Poet for the hell of it, never so well said
-clear and Catalan: poet to disturb-,
poet for the surly delight of truth
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