Pasolini
Če je pesem mavrica, je
prevodljivih samo par
stopinj. Sonce mora vzdržati.
Prej je tema, potem je
tema. Pes sliši samo
določen zvok. Da ne govorimo o
hrastih, oni slišijo z očmi. A
oči ni. Dreves ni. Bil je
potok v mahu. Ko je truplo
zagorelo, so se mi zdrznile
čeljusti. Predstavljal sem si
posmukane vrvi, drvijo
skozi škripec v Damasku. Košaro,
polno datljev in fig, in milnico.

Brian Henry has published six collections of poetry, including Astronaut (Arc, 2000/Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), Graft (Arc, 2002/New Issues, 2003), American Incident (Salt Publishing, 2002), Quarantine (Ahsahta Press, 2006), The Stripping Point (Counterpath Press, 2007) and In the Unlikely Event of a Water (Equipage, 2007). Henry won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America for Quarantine . Other honors include the Poetry Society’s George Bogin Memorial Award, the 2006 Carol Weinstein Poetry Prize, and a Forward Prize nomination for Astronaut . He has co-edited Verse since 1995, and he also co-edited The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse Press, 2005). He currently teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Brian Henry’s translation of Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices has just been published by Harcourt