“The painter and his model” - Matthijs Röling (1970)
The painter and his model - Matthijs Röling (1970)
“The painter and his model” - Matthijs Röling (1970)
Cuestiones de servicio
Hay personas serviciales
y hay personas a las que
les gusta, y se regodean de,
ser servidas...
Y, el amor es otra cosa.
AMÉRICA, no invoco tu nombre en vano - Pablo Neruda
AMÉRICA, no invoco tu nombre en vano.
Cuando sujeto al corazón la espada,
cuando aguanto en el alma la gotera,
cuando por las ventanas
un nuevo día tuyo me penetra,
soy y estoy en la luz que me produce,
vivo en la sombra que me determina,
duermo y despierto en tu esencial aurora:
dulce como las uvas, y terrible,
conductor del azúcar y el castigo,
empapado en esperma de tu especie,
amamantado en sangre de tu herencia.
cuando aguanto en el alma la gotera,
cuando por las ventanas
un nuevo día tuyo me penetra,
soy y estoy en la luz que me produce,
vivo en la sombra que me determina,
duermo y despierto en tu esencial aurora:
dulce como las uvas, y terrible,
conductor del azúcar y el castigo,
empapado en esperma de tu especie,
amamantado en sangre de tu herencia.
Love Lies Bleeding - Christina Rossetti
Love that is dead and buried, yesterday
Out of his grave rose up before my face,
No recognition in his look, no trace
Of memory in his eyes dust-dimmed and grey.
While I, remembering, found no word to say,
But felt my quickened heart leap in its place;
Caught afterglow thrown back from long set days,
Caught echoes of all music passed away.
Was this indeed to meet?—I mind me yet
In youth we met when hope and love were quick,
We parted with hope dead, but love alive:
I mind me how we parted then heart sick,
Remembering, loving, hopeless, weak to strive:—
Was this to meet? Not so, we have not met.
Strip-tease - Blanca Varela
Quítate el sombrero
si lo tienes
quítate el pelo
que te abandona
quítate la piel
las tripas los ojos
y ponte un alma
si la encuentras
quítate el pelo
que te abandona
quítate la piel
las tripas los ojos
y ponte un alma
si la encuentras
Pequeña América - Pablo Neruda
Cuando miro la forma
de América en el mapa,
amor, a ti te veo:
las alturas del cobre en tu cabeza,
tus pechos, trigo y nieve,
tu cintura delgada,
veloces ríos que palpitan, dulces
colinas y praderas
y en el frío del sur tus pies terminan
su geografía de oro duplicado.
Amor, cuando te toco
no sólo han recorrido
mis manos tu delicia,
sino ramas y tierra, frutas y agua,
la primavera que amo,
la luna del desierto, el pecho
de la paloma salvaje,
la suavidad de las piedras gastadas
por las aguas del mar o de los ríos
y la espesura roja
del matorral en donde
la sed y el hambre acechan.
Y así mi patria extensa me recibe,
pequeña América, en tu cuerpo.
Aún más, cuando te veo recostada
veo en tu piel, en tu color de avena,
la nacionalidad de mi cariño.
Porque desde tus hombros
el cortador de caña
de Cuba abrasadora
me mira, lleno de sudor oscuro,
y desde tu garganta
pescadores que tiemblan
en las húmedas casas de la orilla
me cantan su secreto.
Y así a lo largo de tu cuerpo,
pequeña América adorada,
las tierras y los pueblos
interrumpen mis besos
y tu belleza entonces
no sólo enciende el fuego
que arde sin consumirse entre nosotros,
sino que con tu amor me está llamando
y a través de tu vida
me está dando la vida que me falta
y al sabor de tu amor se agrega el barro,
el beso de la tierra que me aguarda.
Monumento a Cervantes, Mar del Plata
Me envían desde Mardel esta foto con esta frase:
Ideal permanente en la lucha por un mundo mejor...
Monumento a Cervantes, Mar del Plata.
Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea. I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known—cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honored of them all,—
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains; but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the scepter and the isle,
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill
This labor, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and through soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness, and pay
Meet adoration to my household gods,
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail;
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me,
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea. I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known—cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honored of them all,—
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains; but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the scepter and the isle,
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill
This labor, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and through soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness, and pay
Meet adoration to my household gods,
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail;
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me,
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Entrevista en Frecuencia Zero (en vivo el martes 01/09/26 al mediodía), presentando "Cardiograma"
"Al reconstruir los orígenes de su vocación, Vibart destacó el rol fundamental de su entorno familiar. Mencionó la impronta de su padre, quien preparaba enseñanzas bíblicas con un enfoque performático y poético, la inspiración de su abuela materna pintora y la riqueza cultural compartida en un hogar atravesado por variados referentes musicales
En la actualidad, la escritora combina su producción literaria con su labor en la Biblioteca Evaristo Carriego del barrio porteño de Palermo, un espacio público especializado en poesía."
https://frecuenciazero.ar/martina-vibart-repasa-su-historia-y-presenta-su-nuevo-libro-cardiograma/
Song - Seamus Heaney
A rowan like a lipsticked girl.
Between the by-road and the main road
Alder trees at a wet and dripping distance
Stand off among the rushes.
There are the mud-flowers of dialect
And the immortelles of perfect pitch
And that moment when the bird sings very close
To the music of what happens.
Copyright © The Estate of Seamus Heaney, 1979. Used by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.
All rights reserved.
PATMOS (fragmento) - Friedrich Hölderlin
Cercano está Dios
y es difícil captarlo.
Pero donde hay peligro, crece también
lo que salva.
En las tinieblas viven las águilas
e intrépidos caminan los hijos de los Alpes,
cruzando abismos sobre frágiles puentes.
(Nah ist
Und schwer zu fassen der Gott.
Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst
Das Rettende auch.
Im Finstern wohnen
Die Adler und furchtlos gehn
Die Söhne der Alpen über den Abgrund weg
Auf leichtgebaueten Brücken)
God is near
and difficult to hold,
but blessings grow
where danger is—
a hawk in the abyss—
while mountain children walk
from edge to edge on fragile bridges.
Independence Day - Ocean Vuong (con versión en castellano por mí)
I set out in the blue American
night, this stupid sparkler
raised in my fist. Electroshocked
dandelion. Smoke columns
over the sock factory giving the moon
that Inness blur. No we’re not
falling. Things are just floating back
where they belong. The brushstroke of seafoam
in the painter’s dream
as he lays in bed dying. Where
does it go? The sparkler lends
my hospital gown a county-fair
glow. I carry it across
the parking lot. Where her Toyota
idles in the wrong
century. Slipping it in
my mother’s mouth
I tell her
she can go anywhere, be anyone
in this vast, possible land now
that she’s a ghost—the freest
thing I know.
Día de la Independencia
Expongo en la azul noche
estadounidense esta estúpida "estrellita"
alzada en mi puño. Diente de león
con electroshock. Columnas de humo
sobre la fábrica de medias dándole a la luna
esa Profundidad borrosa. No no estamos
cayendo. Las cosas solo están flotando de vuelta
adonde pertenecen. La pincelada de espuma de mar
en el sueño del pintor
mientras él yace en su cama muriendo. Dónde
se va? La "estrellita" le da
a mi delantal de hospital un resplandor
de feria campestre. La traslado a través
del estacionamiento. Donde su Toyota
descansa en el siglo
incorrecto. Deslizándolo en
la boca de mi madre
le digo que
puede ir adonde quiera, ser quien quiera
en esta vasta, posible tierra ahora
que es un fantasma—la cosa
más libre que conozco.
Fire and Ice - Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
First printed in Harper's Magazine, December 1920.
Clam - Mary Oliver
Each one is a small life, but sometimes long, if its
place in the universe is not found out. Like us, they
have a heart and a stomach; they know hunger, and
probably a little satisfaction too. Do not mock them
for their gentleness, they have a muscle that loves
being alive. They pull away from the light. They pull
down. They hold themselves together. They refuse to
open.
But sometimes they lose their place and are tumbled
shoreward in a storm. Then they pant, they fill
with sand, they have no choice but must open the
smallest crack. Then the fire of the world touches
them. Perhaps, on such days, they too begin the
terrible effort of thinking, of wondering who, and
what, and why. If they can bury themselves again in
the sand they will. If not, they are sure to perish,
though not quickly. They also have resources beyond
the flesh; they also try very hard not to die.
“Clam” by Mary Oliver. What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems, Da Capo Press, 2002.
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