Pro/p(r)ose Magazine vous invite à découvrir quatre poèmes composés par Rus Khomutoff, poète américain vivant dans l’État de New York. Ses poèmes sont notamment apparus au sein de publications telles que Poethead, Rasputin, Occulum, Egophobia et Hypnopomp. Son premier recueil, Immaculate Days, publié par Alien Buddha Press vient tout juste de sortir et est disponible ici. Nous avons choisi de vous les faire découvrir en langue originale, ceci pour vous permettre de mieux sentir l’énergie et l’émotion qui s’en dégage. Le mois prochain, quatre autres poèmes se dévoileront également.
The following poems were all written by Rus Khomutoff, a New York State-based experimental, neo-surrealist language poet. His work has appeared in various literary magazines, including Poethead, Rasputin, Occulum, Egophobia and Hypnopomp. His debut poetry collection – (called) Immaculate Days – has just been published by Alien Buddha Press and is now available here. Since we believe that not only words, but also subtle meanings can get lost in translation, we decided against translating the poems. That way, you will be able to grasp all the nuances and will come to appreciate the poems even more deeply. Next month, Pro/p(r)ose Magazine will release four more poems written by Rus Khomutoff.
Prisoner of infinity
-To Felino A. Soriano
Oh Prisoner of infinity
countercurrent between transgression and transaction
insinuation of eternity’s unrepeatable coalescence
poise deposited in an effervescent aye
on this iron chain of birth and annihilation
you espouse your catastrophe of charm
surefire voices that furnish the kiss of death
an unwearying impulse
to decrypt and decipher longing
like an idea infested with platitudes
realm navigator on the edge of consciousness
Sonic threshold of the sacred
-To William Carlos Williams
What waxes wanes
the enforced reincarnation hour
and green quartz veins
over the mind of pride
nonentities
Nowhere you!
Everywhere the electric!
the golden one
living in a poetic world, devouring words
these are the thoughts that run rampant
love paves the way to our existence
Paradise & Method
-To Lovebug Starski
An exasperated sigh of grammar and spice
rendered in haphazard lew
vintage wise vanity
lactose intolerant daunt
a dilatation of the dead body of reality
where spirit is no longer
anything but adventitious memory
spellbound speculations
phraseology in completeness
beyond our understanding
the finiteness of type
Death by distraction
– to Morten Christensen
Exist otherwise
slender the grace
relinquish this anyway helix
vexed by derelict marvels
the refuse of chance and history
reprogramming masque and spectacle
into infinite instance
enamel free fall
reset relay all these premises…
unknown the difference
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