Haikus of March 1 sad
Several Poets write poems to The Cultural their support and care to a wounded Japanese
fortnight ago, another March 11, the world shook with Japan. Since then we have drowned in sewage and shaken with nuclear terror, the shadow of the apocalypse and stoicism of a people issue. Now, today, spoken by poets Robayna Andrés Sánchez, Felipe Benítez Reyes, Jesús Ferrero, Clara Janes, Vicente Molina Foix, Ana Merino, Jesus Aguado and Martin Lopez-Vega writes for The Cultural their emergency haikus. Also Alberto Olmos, who spent three years in Japan, describes its earthquakes, between panic and porcelain, one of Japan's most popular writers in the world, Banana Yoshimoto, explains, in first person, how to shake their world saw on a road , and Manuel Cruz examines the plight of the Japanese people, the victim, again, technology and civilization.
SURVIVOR
By Jesús Ferrero
not see what you see,
seems absent.
His face is full of lost streets.
SEQUENCE
The giant wave
smoke that gave birth to the world.
Only seagulls flying over the disaster.
succession of forms
Just before the quiet,
wet streets, snow.
A moment later the fever, death, nothingness.
MARCH HAIKUS
By Felipe Benítez Reyes
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JAPAN, MARCH 2011. THREE PHOTOS
The rough seas,
wound itself
killing dies.
2
What flees
dying wave
drag us?
3
You, too, sea?
Your sapphire blue was
of my metaphors.
haibun
By Andres Sanchez Robayna
For John Gopar, tragic days of Japan in
A large dam, an engineering project. On seeing her, how can we forget that butterfly that fluttered aimlessly.
rapa An old monk at a young monk. Cold hands. The razor glides over the skin of the boy. Before had been cutting onions.
Four figures crossing a bridge. Surrounds a pale light. Know that everything that exists across a bridge.
"The world is a bridge. Cross it, but do not build your dwelling on it, "says the old proverb.
HAIKUS CHAINS
By Ana Merino
A breath of salt
shakes in his cloak
gray epilepsy.
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is full of light
mud in the shadows,
are born again.
***
you breathe in
the heat of the earth
chains.
JAPAN, MARCH 2011. THREE PHOTOS
By Jesus Aguado
About mask
Antigen poses
a grasshopper.
A boat passes
over a bridge.
Play the ocean.
Plum blossoms.
corpses and rubble.
A ball.
FUKUSHIMA, 2011
By Clara Janes
It was the moon
who lifted the waters
against life
wise men
as serene flowers
waiting in line
fires break out
clouds of smoke and debris
in our bodies
Three haikus
By Vicente Molina Foix
Water
Under the Sea
tears look yours.
The sea hurts
Air
Sky lead.
No color in the cloud.
And the silent wind
Earth
flees Earth.
The dog gives a cry.
souls float
AFTER THE TIDE
By Martín López-Vega
After the tide
a boat on the roof-
confusing flight.
Feet in the clouds,
head on the floor
broken ground.
Snowflakes
as prayers broken-
or silence speech.
***
A broken map
By Alberto Olmos
My first earthquake I experienced in the town of Motegi (Tochigi) in 2004. Was at the home of Japanese friends who were engaged professionally in ceramics. The husband was showing me his workshop. There were clay and clay, glazes, lathes and boats, and numerous pieces freshly baked on wooden shelves. There were cups and dishes and plates in white, made from porcelain.
Suddenly everything started shaking. I felt a powerful vibration connecting the world from the soles of the feet. I looked around as if seeking out the float, the harness rescue, a cure. But there was no cure, only human helplessness before a fault on the planet.
"It's okay," said the potter. Only an earthquake.
Nothing happened, indeed. I experienced my first earthquake panic and paralysis. Were twenty seconds that I was not able to cope. Then I thought that my fear had been contradictory static. But you could not escape the enemy when the enemy was at once the entire battlefield.
Months passed, years, and with them disappeared panic. He lived in the town of Moka and earthquakes coincided with my food, roamed my snacks, participated in my dinner. Only silence preventive provoked in me and in my regular spot accompanying the sinking of the ground. It was a respectful silence and resignation. Was used to vibrate the world to hear, and to gauge the potential danger. If someone stood up, was a sign that this earthquake was over six points on the Richter scale. TV informed us immediately about this matter and indicated the epicenter on a map.
Each apocalyptic earthquake urged talks. It was memory of the great Tokyo earthquake in 1923 mentioned the 1995 Kobe, where the yakuza was the first to render assistance to the population. Finally recognized that the Japanese lived in the hopes of a major disaster, an irreparable broken on that map on TV.
Because the earthquake itself is the territory.
But Japan is primarily a map. Japan is committed to that map, with the train schedule and the org. It is a country that works, he wants to continue working, a people that brings order to the storm.
So now draw a new map, buried their dead and attend to work.
nothing more beautiful than a man waiting for the earthquake making porcelain.
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The return of fear
By Manuel Cruz
There was a day when they started to get the first news of the enormous extent of the damage inflicted by the tsunami on Japanese nuclear plants, where most of the newspapers of this country agreed to use in its front-page headlines, almost as if they had agreed-the same word: panic. In that context, "panic" did not mean simply "extreme fear" referred to by the RAE dictionary but rather a step further, to what might be called an uncontrolled fear.
The difference is certainly important. For if the fear is one of the most expensive collective records of power, insofar as it can offer to the fearful as the only authority able to protect them from the threat that scares them, the panic, to bring forth in us an ancient compulsion of survival, it seems that we return to what classic termed the state of nature, the only thing that occurs is a stark struggle of all against all, far from any form of cooperation, rationality or fraternal empathy and solidarity .
Lo and behold, it was from these latitudes was perceived as a panic was not apparently lived in the same way by the actors. Because Japanese citizens, far from reacting in desperate shape that corresponds to a limit situation have done, to continue with the most repeated topics in recent weeks, giving a lesson of serenity, dignity and civility. What kind of account should move as unexpected reaction?
Put aside, for obscenely concerned, those who have used the passes Pisuerga Valladolid to establish a hierarchy between victims of the first (Japanese) and second (eg Haitians) to then charge against those who allegedly took advantage of the bad conscience of the progressive sectors of developed societies to, critical of predatory capitalism through, live silly soup of international charity. Before them, the argument goes, the Japanese would have given a lesson in culture of work, effort and sacrifice of so many should take note. No objection to the argument if it were not always used systematically against certain sectors and not against others. (I mean, one missing, for example, that those same Japanese model enthusiasts do not use it to mark the disaster that has represented for the global economy of casino capitalism, the pernicious role played by speculators without any culture of work, or poor exemplar which follows from the fact that the incomes of executives of large corporations, far from decreasing in time crisis, have been increased. In other words, there are seats to be Japanese, let us be all, but not always the same.) Perhaps of most interest in this context to try to draw the appropriate conclusions from the idea that anthropologists tend to repeat according to which human nature is culture . The Japanese have shown through its reaction to something more significant than the mere fact that the panic is controllable, it is not so much a return invincible state of nature as a manifestation of the worst of our culture.
They would not have been superimposed over the biological requirements for survival in the name of the spirit, but the trend would have faced a fiercely individualistic-so cultural, so social, so she induced with a community spirit that is rooted in their particular traditions. These traditions have allowed the Japanese people starring in episodes of many types, including the most cruel fanaticism unleashed or more (no people who do not have episodes behind be ashamed of.) But it would certainly be in bad taste at the present time delayed to evoke the past. Perhaps a fairer, more compassionate and more worthy to remember that your suffering now connects with another, inflicted more than half a century with tools similar to those now precisely in the name of civilization and democracy. Cruel irony, of course, suffer twice from the same affliction, only by a different hand.
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Five days after
By Banana Yoshimoto
At the time of the earthquake, was on his way to pick up my son at school. My husband was driving at the time, but due to strong earthquake had no choice but to stop the car at the side of the road. In the car window, I saw how far some tall buildings swaying, and I thought: "There will be many problems." Fortunately, my son was safe in school, and went home with him safely.
Upon arriving home, we found some damage, like broken glass of a framed picture and some books that had fallen off the shelf, but luckily there were no other serious blight in our home. A neighborhood friend spent at home and my office immediately and kindly offered to lend a hand. I took care of people who could not return home for the interruption in the operation of public transport.
Mobile phones do not work at all, so Twitter and Viber were the most useful ways to get information. Felt some aftershocks, but there was no serious injury in Tokyo.
Now, the concern is the fact that people are confused by the disaster, and has started buying like crazy everyday materials and products. Rice, canned food and toilet paper are exhausted everywhere. Nor is it easy to travel by car by restrictions in the supply of gasoline.
saw on television extremely tragic pictures of tsunami that have had an enormous influence on people. However, some stations have realized and are changing their normal programs with subtitles for other information. I was deeply impressed that brave decision of Channel 12 TV Tokyo, which was the first.
On the issue of nuclear power plant in Fukushima, yet I can not get an idea about it because of the many opinions offered. However, I would say I am impressed by the large category of Japanese engineers who are making every effort to try to prevent the explosion, instead of talking about what is right or wrong. My heart is bursting at the large number of people who have died, but on the other hand, the SDF are engaging in rescue work and Most survivors are helping each other continually. Not a single day that I do not realize how big is the Japanese people. I think a writer must convey a sense of hope to everyone, whatever the situation. I do not want to stop smiling, under any circumstances, lose the freedom to think, and I want to face any difficulties with courage.
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