SPARROW
Catullus loved you, shameless bird,
You were his lady’s pet.
You heard her dainty breathing, perched
Beside her when she slept;
Catullus
That Catallus sparrow grew into a right little shit.
Hate is precious. To ever love and detest.
Hate is practical. To ever love and forget.
The Catallus sparrow grew into a proper little shit.
Each day, it buries its predator beak in my bones.
Cracks the skull, plucking. Energy courses through all.
It’s in pain and arousal. Energy courses through all.
I expect it to ignite. Blow the bird to bits.
The sparrow’s grown into a right proper shit. Prancing about
on its spindly legs. My skull gallery to wild noise.
Hate is useful. It feels good to forget.
Energy courses through all. In love and hate.
It swells unseen. The vicious circle within me.
Will or won’t blow. Expect it to, simply.
The beauty of simple arrangements
You’re not half bad, I must admit.
A suck and swallow, as rendered by you
Really is as dreamy as a fuck up the shitter.
Let’s call it a compliment. You’ve worked hard
To earn it, swaying your arse and moaning sweetly;
Chipping in the odd word or two, which I echoed.
The start, I must say, was hardly romantic:
I wanted to screw you, and so I did.
You didn’t put up much of a fight. More of a show.
You could have screamed, and nothing would have happened,
But you didn’t scream. You preferred to play
The innocent, acting like you didn’t yet know
If you wanted to take it in the mouth or the hand first.
Though it seems you wanted it all at once.
Today, I’m not surprised. I know of these things
And will never call what we made – love.
Really, there is no need to lie about anything any more.
Beauty, such as it was, is salvageable.
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Jakub Winiarski (born. 1974 and still living in Warsaw). Poet, writer, literary critic, creative writing tutor. Author of the following volumes: „Przenikanie darów” (1995), „Obiektyw” (1997), as well as the novels „Loquela” (2004), „Kronika widzeń złudnych” (2004). Currently working on a novel with the working title “Calm the dogs inside me”. Following some dozen years of waiting, he has another collection of poems ready to see the light of day: “Songs from an old heart”, from which the attached translations are taken. His official website is here www.literatureissexy.pl |
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| Jakub Winiarski (ur. 1974 w Warszawie, gdzie mieszka). Poeta, prozaik, krytyk literacki, nauczyciel pisania. Autor tomików: „Przenikanie darów” (1995), „Obiektyw” (1997), oraz powieści: „Loquela” (2004), „Kronika widzeń złudnych” (2004). Obecnie pracuje nad powieścią pt. “Uspokój we mnie te psy”. Na druk czeka jego kolejny po kilkunastu latach milczenia publikowany zbiór wierszy “Piosenki starego serca”, z którego pochodzą publikowane utwory. Oficjalna strona Jakuba Winiarskiego: www.literaturajestsexy.pl |
