IslANDs - Painterly Experiments & Exploded Sculptures

The Steel God Genesis
For Gudjon Bjarnason Bjarnason
I chose names for the newly-born of today and tomorrow
Letters gathered in your name Eloah, mean mighty, strong, prominent,
only the first two letters in the name Eloah stand for strength,
He, made in His likeness, kneads us with his hands,
and shape these mounds of clay.
Whilst you,
I say you,
like a child, like a friend, like a confessor
you saw seeds of earthquakes and steel storms,
Part the body of steel, as once God divided the earth from the waters
and pulled Eve, the woman of Adam, out of his very rib,
You saw metal like body parts, hundreds of splinters,
at our last supper
Which betrays the fish and the loaf of bread
Or hide them in forms and fetuses
Running away from the old species, from known parents.
Your explosions in steel skewer a ram in the arrogant atoms of metal
Which thought of themselves immortal,
light a welding flame in our eyes,
a tear, a glimmer,
an emotion mighty, strong, prominent.
Doina Uricariu
(New York, Jan. 3, 2015)
Credits Doina Uricariu poem/English translation:
USA Institute: Christina Procter, Associate Editor, Trend Magazine, Santa Fe,
NM, USA, with Livio Dimitriu
The explosion in steel
is like a wondering son,
who takes only paths unbeaten,
where are the buds and green leaves in the wood piled against the walls of
the house?
Where is the forest where the trees were cut from?
Where are the lonely parents
of this flame in the fireplace,
Where you are burning?
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