Lost In The Rain
Lost in the rain And the wild wind gloom couldn’t be gloomier for his dark-eyed son And what could he do When even the song of the poet had gone homing to a graveyard And gamblers had gathered And howlers had gathered with pricking dirges for his black-eyed son As rainbows branded the sky And fury gutted the street And hours harvested bones Dawn emptied his drawers Emptied him of friends Pelted him with loss In the town of a one-eyed king And the graveyard was a shrine for the bleeding light In the song of the poet | En la lluvia perdido Versión al español: Fer de la Cruz En la lluvia perdido Y la silvestre opacidad del viento no habría de ser más turbia a los oscuros ojos de su hijo Y qué podía hacer si aun el canto del poeta había vuelto a la tumba, en busca de un hogar Y los apostadores se habían conglomerado También los aulladores con sus cánticos fúnebres, para ofrendar punzantes a los oscuros ojos de su hijo En tanto el arcoíris herró el cielo y la furia desentrañaba calles y cosechaba huesos cada hora sus cajones vació el amanecer lo dejó sin amigos le dio de golpes con su propia pérdida en tierra de rey tuerto Para la luz sangrante la tumba era una ermita en el canto del poeta
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Uche Nduka (b. October 14, 1963), is a Nigerian poet, essayist, songwriter and anthologist. Born and raised in Nigeria, he has lived in Holland, Germany and the U.S. He is the author of seven volumes of poems, a book of prose, and is the editor of two anthologies of poetry. Winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize for 1997, some of his writings have been translated into Dutch, German, French and Serbo-Croatian. Until recently, he taught literature at the University of Bremen, Germany.
His latest volume of poems is titled eel on reef (Akashic Books, New York, 2007). Some new poems of his were published in The Recluse and Boog City this year. Nduka presently lives and works in New York City.
Image to accompany poem: "Rain in Sumy" by Dmytro Zagrebelnyy (Creative Commons)
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