Ποιειν Και Πραττειν - create and do

Poem about life in a city by Katerina Anghelaki Rooke

Katerina Anghelaki Rooke in Chania '95        Photo: Hartmut Schulz

 

Present Eternity

From my window I observe the traffic -

Cars parked in the void

Or speed up in order

To catch themselves returning.

The world seems indefinable, dim

As if I were blinded by the steam

From some distant cauldron

Where the evil of creation

Is stewing in its own juice.

The infatuation bodies used to provoke -

Where has the infatuation gone?

How can a wounded memory

Count absences?

Has the content of life changed

Or does my person no longer offer

Sufficient future

For life to contain me?

 

Never before have so many questions

Weighed down my poems

Never before has imagination

Omitted to give me

So many answers.

From now on you’ll find

Hardly any descriptions of nature

In my lines;

This is because

I’m concentrating totally

On trying to imagine the face

Of the one who will promise me

Present eternity

For just one moment.

Katerina Anghelaki Rooke



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