たかが言葉とか言いながら
噛み締めるように詩を書いている
バスドライバーは素敵。
個人的にはバーのシーンはあまり好きではないが、パターソンはこの時間が必要と考えると、仕方ないが付き合うかという気になる。
犬で間を持たせまくってるけど、
間が現実味を帯びていて
成立してるのが不思議。
LOVE POEM
We have plenty of matches in our house.
We keep them on hand, always.
Currently our favorite brand is Ohio Blue Tip,
though we used to prefer Diamond brand
That was before we discovered Ohio Blue Tip matches.
They are excellently packaged, sturdy
little boxes with dark and light blue and white labels
with words lettered in the shape of a megaphone,
as if to say even louder to the world,
“Here is the most beautiful match in the world,
its one-and-a-half-inch soft pine stem capped
by a grainy dark purple head, so sober and furious
and stubbornly ready to burst into flame,
lighting, perhaps, the cigarette of the woman you love,
for the first time, and it was never really the same
after that.
All this we will give you.”
That is what you gave me, I
become the cigarette and you the match, or I
the match and you the cigarette, blazing
with kisses that smoulder toward heaven.
