Ernest Farrés
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At the hotel a woman in her underwear
pores over a train timetable. An hour later,
in low spirits and bone-tired,
...
In this bedroom devoid of furniture
and unpolluted the action is set.
It is filled with sunlight admitted
by the window and my footsteps resound
...
The right to switch on the lights in the bedroom
at night and to take a turn back and forth half naked
without drawing curtains or lowering blinds
...
When you entered my life, on no account
did you enter quietly, but like
those unexpected things that exclude one
from conformism. Pliable, not knowing
...
The man is looking for trouble,
thrills, sublime ecstasies, places
short on folklore, deals,
calculated approximations, objects
...
It's as if the horizon had overflowed,
as if nature had marked the passage
from day to night by slowing time,
as if a hydrogen bomb had exploded.
...
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Ernest Farrés Junyent ( Igualada , 1967 ) is a Catalan poet and journalist. Ernest Farrés is editor of the newspaper La Vanguardia of Barcelona. He has written six books of poetry nailed one on deck and one on the anvil (1996) Mosquito (1998), Edward Hopper (2006), The unpredictable effects of magnetic fields (2011) Blitzkrieg (2011) and Los Angeles (2015), with illustrations by Joan Longas. His blog The Republic of Poetry Ernest Farrés was awarded the Prize of Martorell Vila Blogs Catalan Literature in 2010.)
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Hotel room
At the hotel a woman in her underwear
pores over a train timetable. An hour later,
in low spirits and bone-tired,
she'll start to pace around the room
leaving a fruity frangance in the air
that reeks of mustiness.
A week later there'll be no
tangible results. A year later
she'll be the object of caresses.
Another four and no lullabies.
Another ten and the delicate balance
between youth and age will be gone.
Another twenty and she'll cling
to an expansive ethics of listlessness
and Triumph of the Will.
Another century and nobody's
going to remember a thing about her.
In two centuries there'll be
no polar ice caps. When five
billion years go by,
there won't even be a sun.
Translated into English by Lawrence Venuti
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