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Work from Paros Poetry and Translation Symposium 2014: Jim Stone

 

A Choreography of Imperfection

 

Oops, somebody fucked up,

some body collapsed.

What to do. Others follow

 

slipping on the mistake

of someone else’s making.

Even worse, the floorboards

 

open wide, swallowing

everyone up in one gulp.

The dancers and their bodies

 

plunge into free fall

popping shoulder joints,

on the way down, to join hands.

 

 

Creation Myth

 

Words come to me and I
concoct cockeyed equations
in the pokey blink of an eye.

 

 Jim Stone

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NOTE: The translations below are works-in-progress

 

Χορογραφία της Ατέλειας

 

Ουπς, κάποιο χαμένο κορμί τα σκάτωσε,
κάποιο σώμα έπεσε
και άρχισε ο πανικός. Τι να κάνεις.
Οι υπόλοιποι ακολούθησαν
γλιστρώντας στο λάθος αλλουνού.

Ακόμα χειρότερα,
οι ρωγμές στις σανίδες άνοιξαν
πλατιά, καταπίνοντάς τους μονομιάς.

Οι χορευτές και τα κορμιά τους
σ’ ελεύθερη πτώση
βγαίνουν οι ώμοι
για να δώσουν τα χέρια
και πέφτουν
και πέφτουν

 

 

Translation / Μετάφραση:
Konstantina Koutsourouba / Κωνσταντίνα Κουτσουρούμπα
Eleni Nanopoulou / Ελένη Νανοπούλου
Harilaos Nikolaides / Χαρίλαος Νικολαΐδης
Jim Stone / Τζιμ Στόουν
Thanassis Fotiades / Αθανάσιος Φωτιάδης

 

 

Μύθος της Δημιουργίας

 

Λέξεις με πλησιάζουν και εγώ
σκαρώνω σκόρπιες εξισώσεις
στο παγωμένο βλέμμα που κινώ.

 

 

Translation / Μετάφραση:
Konstantina Koutsourouba / Κωνσταντίνα Κουτσουρούμπα
Eleni Nanopoulou / Ελένη Νανοπούλου
Harilaos Nikolaides / Χαρίλαος Νικολαΐδης
Jim Stone / Τζιμ Στόουν
Thanassis Fotiades / Αθανάσιος Φωτιάδης

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