01 April 2014

AUTUMN ON A SUNDAY MORNING

AUTUMN ON A SUNDAY MORNING  
© Farouk Asvat  

Township music wafts up bluesily
To my fifth floor cube:
A house in a room.
A charcoal child swings
Listless and nonchalant
In the morning sun of winter.
Mother and boyfriend
(husband and wife so far away)
Fry chicken offal in the backyard
Of the gujerati school
Where children sing
The alphabet on weekdays.
Shaking the homebrew shake
Doing the slowmotion monkeyjive
Just taking it easy:
Building god's paradise is hard work
Even his servants need a rest


© farouk asvat

composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid]

[] Acknowledgements:

Autumn On A Sunday Morning was previously published in:

     A Celebration Of Flames (donker, p27, 1987);
     Herfst Op Een Zondagechtend: Dutch translation by Irene Scheltes (1989);
     A Celebration Of Flames (piquant publications, p32, 2007);
     www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (01.04.2014);
     A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
     A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p32, 2014).
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:

Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
This Masquerade (short stories)
I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
In The House Of Love (novel)*
Weapons Of Words (comparative literature & literary criticism)

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HERFST OP EEN ZONDAGECHTEND  

     Dutch translation by © Irene Scheltes  

Mbaqanga zweeft neerslachtig omhoog
Naar mijn hok op de vijfde verdieping:
Een huis in een kamer.
Een kind als kolen schommelt
Lusteloos en nonchalant
In de winterochtendzon.
De moeder en haar vriend
(man en vrouw zo ver)
Bakken bedorven kip op het erf
Van de Gujerati school
Waar kinderen door de week
Het alfabet zingen.
Zij wiegen de tshwaladans,
Doen de monkeyjive in slowmotion,
Op hun dooie akkertje:
Het bouwen van Gods paradijs is zwaar werk
Zelfs zijn knechten moeten rusten

     Dutch translation by kind permission of © Irene Scheltes  

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