Poem Brut #111 – Karen Carcia
These pieces come out of thinking about the gap between language and perception, between thought and utterance, thought and mark-making. They come out of the tradition of erasure poetry and steady stitching as a response, approach and way into world.
In the 111th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Karen Carcia.
The rain surrenders to the town, Al Capone is no longer there
The bachelor enters to a bar on the back alley. He notices that the tune in the Chinese restaurant is chasing him. The happy rhythm of ‘La en gañadora’ is coiling around him in the dim light. ‘La engañadora’ means the fraudster in Spanish. But it was translated in the US as “Anything Can Happen When You’re in Havana”.
A short story by Hiromi Suzuki.