by Ece Apaydin
The childhood of Tayf was a place where it is able to snuggle down and sleep
my childhood was a letter that steamed across the great ocean. my son’s childhood
was a theater-in-the-round of the predators. a town theater
which the makers put a brick each day the letters and the shadows of the retreating animals
they had steamed across the ocean with my childhood. my name was poured with its archaic passenger
from an envelope with an inflammable mouth that recognize its letter. such as
the wide shoulders of the cognac bottle. a collapsing god times. it was said to us like this
the house is a rising value go up to the attic !
Tayf’s childhood listened at a corner. don’t you dare the words are created for those like them.
don’t you dare a kiss is wanted for a number of games
mind! I will wish to be already dead because
when the lights are gone. the house is gone. the hair
of the dusty and heavy curtains. former time lamps
mind! do not go. in this poem
all of us have a room !
The childhood of the Spectrum is a bright scarlet prescription. ascend the floors slowly
throw your excess belongings. house over house rose over rose. of those house makers
adobe. Mind! a tower in their dictionary. I have worked for peanuts
in the kitchen and in the hallway. my childhood watched me silently. carrying in their pockets
dictionary and meteorite. house over house. mind!
dough pot holders are not enough. dressing gowns. undercooked eggs
the evil eye in the broken leather of the sandals !
Embalming a life with sorrow is not enough.
ECE APAYDIN
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ABOUT THE POET ~
KORAY FEYİZ, A Turkish poet, born in Istanbul in 1961, Koray Feyiz studied Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering, and Urban Planning, at Karadeniz Technical University, and at Middle East Technical University. He completed his doctoral dissertation on Urban Psychology. Feyiz is currently engaged in research on Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing. His first published poem appeared in one of Turkey’s most prestigous literary magazines, Varlık, in 1987. His poems and prose essays have continued to appear in numerous Turkish literary magazines over the last two decades. He has also published seven collections of his poetry: Mezarlar Eskimedi (The Graveyard is Not Exhausted, İz, 1987), Bir Mektupta İki Yalnızlık (Two Solitudes in One Letter, Engin, 1988), Ben O Issız O Yorgun Şehir (I Am a Desolate, Exhausted City, Prospero, 1995), Uhrevi Zorba (The Metaphysical Autocrat, Urun, 1995), DüşleGelen (To You Who Arrived in a Dream, Suteni, 1995), Seni Bağışladım Çünkü Beni Çok Üzdün (Cause of My Grief, I Forgive You, Hera, 1999) and Su Yarası (Wounded by the Water, Artshop 2010), (Translated by Dr.Nesrin Eruysal)
Last updated June 12, 2016