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CTITC

CENTRE FOR THE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY TEXT
CENTRUL PENTRU TRADUCEREA SI INTERPRETAREA TEXTULUI CONTEMPORAN

 

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 TRANSLATION CAFÉ 


 

MTTLC
MA Programme for the

TRANSLATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY LITERARY TEXT

Review of Contemporary Texts in Translation and E-Learning

 

 

 

 

Michael Curtis

 

Safe Harbour

1


She learned it early, that smile,

used the world over

to placate and to persuade.

 

She exercised it each morning,

quietened her children,

schooled her husband to good behaviour,

 

sent it before her each evening

into a room of laughing men,

taught it to earn tips at the bar,

 

let it spread from her mouth

to raised cheeks and tightened jaw,

coloured her talk with whites and reds,

 

employed it carelessly,

allowed it to play with a strand of hair,

look twice at the stranger at the corner table,

 

until insatiable nights

wiped it from her perfected face

and stole it from her eyes

 

2

 

So tonight

all the light

is robbed from her eyes

 

and the smile

once found with ease

when lighting our candle

 

takes ten seconds to compose

as she walks to our table

from the back room.

 

Her long peppered summer

has fetched up in August

weary as winter,

 

and now she must keep on walking

through an unbreakable dream

that brings no escaping

 

3

 

Like the dream

you’ve forgotten by morning

but doesn’t forget you,

your son dead, your father dying again,

the nightmare

that lies heavy behind eyes

that cloud for hours despite sunshine,

lamplight or even awakened love,

so the voice on the phone that evening

cannot be believed, the postcard

from the island beach in Thailand,

date smudged, must have been censored,

the e-mail confirming her arrival

forged, and the only thing

that can burn off the doubt

is another half-remembered dream,

unwilled, involuntary, but this time light

 

4

 

As the weightless catamaran

that straddles the countless fires

extinguishing and lighting the warm sea

 

on a risen morning

resolved to dazzle eyes

and burn off all effects of clouds

 

while the brief wakes of yachts

break cover to take their chance

and slake untethered restlessness

 

unsheeted at the exhausted wind

muffled engines screwing to the sun

as crews float between lives

 

5

 

Like us upon the salt of life,

swimming on the writhing sea

bathing in the showered sun

hugging shade beneath the pines,

 

purged of form, reduced to line

so recognition sheds disguise,

and sparrows peck at sparrow dunes

and sand flies fly across the sand,

 

and we follow the directions

concealed from the border guards

who only mistake them for maps

painted on glass quicksilvered by death,

 

and here we’ll find our way

while pedalos pedal families of five

lilos lie low in the afternoon

and the day glows in dayglows,

 

navigate a route through clouds

and imagine ourselves to light

until we settle to the smiles

that trade in nothing but themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simona Pavaloiu

 

Michael Curtis

 

Safe Harbour

 

1

 

A invatat destul de devreme

Ca zambetul e folosit asupra oamenilor

Pentru a impaca si a convinge.

 

L-a exersat in fiecare dimineata,

Cu el si-a linistit copiii

Cu el si-a indemnat sotul sa se comporte bine.

 

seara de seara l-a trimis inaintea sa

intr-o camera plina de barbati razand invatandu-l cum sa-i castige bacsisuri la bar,

 

l-a lasat sa plece dinspre buze

catre pometii inalti si maxilarele-nclestate. Zambetul i-a dat sinceritate si pasiune vorbelor ei

 

L-a folosit fara grija,

i-a dat voie sa se joace cu un fir de par,

sa se uite de doua ori la strainul de la masa din colt,

 

pana cand noptile fara masura,

i-au sters zambetul de pe chipul desavarsit

Si i l-au furat din privire.

 

2

In noaptea asta,

lumina din privirea

ei a disparut

 

Iar zambetul

Ce odinioara aparea cu usurinta

Cand ne aprindea lumanarea

 

Acum, ii ia zece secunde sa-l faca sa apara, Venind la masa noastra

dinspre camera din spate.

 

Lunga ei vara

s-a ivit in August

Imbracata ca de iarna.

 

Acum ea trebuie sa mearga inainte

Prin acest vis de nesfaramat

De unde nu are scapare.

 

3

 

Asemeni visului

Ce-l uiti dimineata

Dar care nu te uita el pe tine,

Fiul tau mort, tatal care iar moare,

Cosmarul

Se deruleaza greoi in spatele ochilor

Acel nor inca ramane in ciuda soarelui,

Luminii lampii sau chiar a iubirii reinviate,

Asa ca vocea de la telefon din acea seara

Nu poate sa fie crezuta, cartea postala

De pe o plaja din Thailanda,

Cu data mazgalita, trebuie sa fi fost cenzurata,

e-mailul care confirma sosirea ei

e falsificat, si singurul lucru

ce poate sa mistuie indoiala

este un alt vis pe jumatate amintit,

nedorit, involuntar, dar de aceasta data e luminos.

 

4

 

Usorul catamaran

Oscileaza intre flacari nenumarate

Ce sting si lumineaza apa calda a marii.

 

Intr-o noua dimineata

Ochii tulburi sunt limpeziti

Iar efectele cosmarului-mistuite

 

In timp ce elicele iahturilor

Au iesit din ascunzis pentru a-si incerca norocul

Si a potoli agitatia fara margini

 

Panzele nu sunt ridicate in vantul obosit Motoarele inabusite se rasucesc in soare

Iar echipajele plutesc pe marea vietii.

 

5

 

Inotand intr-o mare agitata

Scaldandu-ne in soarele puternic

Imbratisand umbra de sub pini.

Asemeni noua , in fata unei vieti amare

 

Scapati de forma , o dunga doar Recunoasterea isi asterne deghizarea,

Vrabiile ciugulesc doar de pe dunele vrabiilor, iar mustele nisipului zboara doar deasupra nisipului.

 

si urmam trasee

tainuite fata de paznicii granitelor,

ce le confunda cu hartile

desenate pe sticla argintata de catre moarte.

 

Si aici vom gasi al nostru drum familii cu 5 membrii pedaleaza hidrobiciclete

Saltele de plaja zac intinse dupa amiaza

Iar ziua straluceste in lumina zilei.

 

Navigam pe o cale printre nori

Si ne imaginam in lumina

Pana cand zambetelor noastre

Li se vor raspunde cu alte zambete.

 

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