“Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.” – Rumi Ek het as kind op ‘n dooie by getrap. Die angel het in my voet bly sit terwyl ek aan al die rate vir die bysteek probeer dink het: ys, botter en ‘n mes wat…
Tag: Charl J. F. Cilliers
N.P. van Wyk Louw – vertaling in Engels
N.P. van Wyk Louw (1906-1970) – vertaal deur/translated by Ilze Gertenbach & Charl J.F. Cilliers To A Urologist Doctor, by courier I send again: this fruit, fine-pressed and fair, sifted from dark flesh: from air distilled and cherry juice and grain. In your flask let my scant scourings not mingle with those sun-drunk things….
Lucas Malan – vertaling in Engels
Lucas Malan – vertaal deur Charl J.F. Cilliers Meditation Lucas Malan Pigeons have come to nest again. Untidily, as they usually do. Peacefully here on the stoep, in the latticework of a vine, amongst leaves making themselves at home. Briefly. They sleep now in pairs, as they should. Serenely. Listen to the whole neighbourhood considering…