Furi, villula vestra non ad Austri
flatus opposita est neque ad Favoni
nec saevi Boreae aut Apheliotae,
verum ad milia quindecim et ducentos.
o ventum horribilem atque pestilentem!
(Gaius Valerius Catullus, Verona, c 84 BC - Rome, c 54 BC)
(Your nice bijou cottage in the country,
Furius, stands exposed to draughts from neither
south, east, west, nor savage north: instead it's
faced with an overdraft of fifteen hundred
plus - a wind most vile and pestilential!)
(Translation by Peter Green, The Poems of Catullus, University of California Press)
Poems
- The Observation Car
Poems about the world and words around us: boats in Istanbul, buses in Mexico, trains in Sri Lanka, the art of conversation, sweet-and-sour memories, pigeons on statues, nessness and nesslessness, singing out of tune and dancing with someone else's shadow. You can read (and hear) several of these poems at my website at www.sidewaysstation.com/my_poems/
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