"THE CITY (Palindrome-Haiku)
Go flat, urbanised....
A cradle here held arcades
in a brutal fog."
--Anthony Etherin
We claim to uphold the sanctity of the individual, but in practice our autonomy is highly contingent; only the will to coerce stands sovereign, in the world of bad hierarchies, bad faith, & bad reasons.
"That is when I officially lost my mind and also became afraid of the size of the sky."
I said if writing a poem is like juggling, translating a poem is like juggling a live animal.
" 'You want me to write for you?'
'Absolutely,' I said."
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