[Writingworkshop] Cram all your malarkey

[Neale Morison]

 From Joe's sff net blog:

 "Imitation," a specific form from Robert
 > Lowell:  Take a poem written in a language you don't understand and 
turn it
 > into an English poem, line by line.


Boris Pasternak

Khramovoi v malakhite li kholen,
Vozleleyan v srebre l' kosogor
Mnogodolnuyu gol' kolokolen,
Melkovodnyi nesyot mel'khior

Cram all your malarkey in your colon,
Voices learned, you scatter your coarse ore,
God's new moon of gold so coolly stolen,
Melted down for naught, and nothing more.

-- 
Neale Morison
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