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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● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● This Masquerade (short
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● 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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