Showing posts with label Franco Cortese. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 24, 2021

National Poetry Month : Franco Cortese,

 

aba āra aca ada aba āra

aba aba aba aba aba aba, aba aba
aca: aca acá, acá,
āda: 'ada, ada, ada
afa, afa;
aĝa ağa äga äga, ağa äga
aha, aha, āh
ʻā:
aja aja, aj
ā aja, aja aja
aka aka, aka, aka; aka ak
ā āķa
ala ala, ala: ala
ama âmâ: ama, ama, ama, ama, ama:
ana, ana, ana ana; ana ana ana,
apa, apa, apa; -apa apâ, apâ, apâ apâ
āra āra ära, ära ara ārā
asa, asa asa, asa a
șa asa, asa asa
ata ata; ata ata, ata ata, ata ata; ata, ata
ava; ava
åvå ava,
awa awa, awa awa, awa
áwa
aya; ay
á ayą́ ayá:
aza, aza
aza aza,
aya aya aya aya,
awa awa awa áwa awa awa
ava, ava ava
ata: a
ță ata atʼaʼ, ata
a
șa asa; asa
ara ara, ara ara ara ara, ara ara ara, ara ara ara,
apa ap
â apa,
ana ana,
ama ama,
ala,
aka,
ája
'aha, aha
äga, äga
afa,
'ada
āda, ada, ada ada
aca, aca
abâ, abâ, abâ, abâ, aba, aba.

 

to divide properly their transient hillside glory

village to share forefathers or to divide river, to distribute oppressed
someone: their nose, face,
skin: enemy, enmity, vain
enmity, hatred;
aged master to own land, landowner to own
mind, reason, you:
dog to drive away, she-goat to shave, bow (weapon) to force into a certain state
blood-red brother, grandmother, wives; root but a hidden or disguised thought
onto sheath, harness strap: a winglike anatomical process or part, especially of bone
to bother the blind: mother, father, village, origin, we:
where is, how are, and onwards; to be and to barely see,
what, come on, let's go; to take an oath dumb, mute, groping stolen
right right away, honour a saw-edged perch on the external side of something
one, out of where, intentionally such to cure, to heal that person
towards a hunting; servant to work, eye swelling, eye shadow; that person, that
prey; man to own man,
mercy gone, pity absent, compassion now
deceased; here to eat over there:
section of a village, birthmark
a bruise forming words emphasizing contempt for a subject,
ghost palm (of the hand) to defecate coloring,
our distant port now drinkware and
old wives’ tale, prey of all
they: thread to tie down wing feather (especially a prayer feather), to make dirty
such act of hoping; grandfather
now ware, village now road, temple now street, bride now goods to possess sexually,
ape groping buttocks,
I a collection of things associated with a person or place,
people a toxic byproduct of improper or incomplete digestion,
the dwelling of some animals, in the form of a cavity with one or many exits,
a hole in the ground from which water can be obtained,
alas!
water, running water
land, property
damage,
enemy skin, hungry person, continual island to need
someone, somebody
indigent, oppressed, abused, despicable, to share, just now.

 

 

Franco Cortese is a poet living in Thorold, Ontario. His poetry won the 2020 UNESCO Sustainability Poetry Prize, was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize and has appeared in Literary Review of Canada, The Malahat Review, Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review and others. He has published a number of chapbooks through Gap Riot Press, above/ground press, no press, nOIR:Z, Simulacrum Press, Trainwreck Press, The Blasted Tree and Anstruther Press, with others forthcoming from Timglaset, Hesterglock Press, and Serif of Nottingham. His full-length poetic debut, Lip, is available from Penteract Press.