Poetry – Page 30 – Divagyrations

Halo Sayang

Tadi aku makan plum yang di kulkas itu bekalmu untuk sarapan besok ya? Maaf sayang habis mereka enak manis segar sekali – barbarisme dari ‘This Is Just to Say’, William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, New Directions, 1985, hlm. 74.

What should it be; the body of dew, wholly at the mercy of wind?

“mana pula yang lebih nyata, berjalan merunduk karena angin kencang, atau gemerlapan lampu di Amsterdam” Pada pilihan itu aku tambahkan pohon-pohon ramping pipih dan beton baru putih seperti salju Kamegayega-Yatsu Pupur tebal terlalu tebal di pipimu O Hitomaru Tetes air mata tak mencetak jejak di lengan kimonomu Warna musim semi pilihan Shogun purba. Setitik nodaContinue reading “What should it be; the body of dew, wholly at the mercy of wind?”

“often we pay homage to appropriate moral sentiments while our real feelings drift elsewhere.”

then what do you remember? the uncut elephant grass in your backyard? how it made you see green when i let you fondle my breasts? white as winter. “they’re so white they’re blue,” you said. or maybe it was someone else who said. when it comes to memories mammaries things are as slippery as, you’veContinue reading ““often we pay homage to appropriate moral sentiments while our real feelings drift elsewhere.””

Pagi 6

seorang pengamen terjerembab di lorong baja seruling sundanya pecah jadi dua di sampingnya gadis bergaun bunga membenarkan sehelai rambut di poninya

Dua Gerobak Merah

Gerobak Merah (v.1) semua tergantung pada roda gerobak merah disemir air hujan di samping ayam-ayam putih. Gerobak Merah (v.2) semua tergantung pada roda gerobak merah kilat air hujan putih ayam-ayam. William Carlos Williams, diambil dari Selected Poems, New Directions, 1985, hal. 56.

IJWGA

IJWGA IJWGA IJWGA! but I don’t Just Wanna Get Along with you. IJWGA

Notes Found at the National Museum

Ink stand ink stand Silver Plate Silver miniature of a temple A miniature of a church 60 17 106 48 East Longitude Then and Now: Jakarta An oval table A stick-on table Write down what the Holy Spirit does: Spiritus Sancti

Them Analyses

Experienced researchers provide additional analysis “etic” in nature make use of established theoretical frameworks for interpreting anthropological sociological social- psychological data & tell the story from the point of view of the contemporary consumers to provide a smorgasbord of additional insights “emic” in nature. the words are theirs, the poetry mine

"Praise be to God, and to you too."

I know, you must be sick of me. I’m sorry. I don’t want to do this either. Who would? But I need the money to pay for my school fees, my brothers’, books for my sister, ribbons for her hair. My parents are not rich, not like yours. But I have hopes too, dreams, plansContinue reading “"Praise be to God, and to you too."”

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