zaterdag 1 februari 2014

Gooise Poezie vertaalwedstrijd 2014


CONVERSATION van Louis MacNeice 

Ordinary people are peculiar too:

Watch the vagrant in the eyes

Who sneaks away while they are talking with you

Into some black wood behind the skull,

Following un-, or other, realities,

Fishing for shadows in a pool.

But sometimes the vagrant comes the other way

Out of their eyes and into yours

Having mistaken you perhaps for yesterday

Or for tomorrow night, a wood in which

He may pick up among the pine-needles and burrs

The lost purse, the dropped stitch.

Vagrancy however is forbidden; ordinary men

 

Soon come back to normal, look you straight

In the eyes as if to say ‘It will not happen again’,

Put up a barrage of common sense to baulk

Intimacy but by mistake interpolate
Swear-words like roses in their talk.

 
De winnende vertaling en het juryrapport  staan op de website van de bibliotheek.
 
 

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