e.e. cummings
his queer hands twitter before him, like foolish
butterflies
he is the most courteous of men
Eugenio de Andrade, “Penniless Lovers”
But at every gesture they made,
a bird was born from their fingers
and, dazzled, vanished into space.translated by Alixis Levitin
from Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry edited by J.D. McClatchy
For further hand magic see the string figures in Kay Armatage’s 1983 film Storytelling available from the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (not on Amazon, yet).
And so for day 1259
25.05.2010