Tras un corto periodo de lectura de las entregas de la revista And Then, Bernie Tuchman suele haber una resena poetica de todo el contenido del volumen, pagina a pagina, imagen a imagen. Mas que sinopsis, es la huella que cada lectura va dejando en el poeta. Es tal vez asi como en realidad se leen y entienen los textos, desde los poeticos hasta los imformativos. La generosidad de Bernie se muestra no solo en este registro sino en la practica de escuchar con el ojo poetico y el espiritu a cada uno de nosotros.
After reading And Then Magazine Bernie Tuchman does a poetic register of each piece. Rather than a chronicle this a register of the poetic traces the work of art leaves on the poet. Maybe this is the way we really read poetry and even mundane texts. Bernie’s generosity is evident not only in this way of writing, but in listening everyone of us with spiritual and poetic eyes.
Qanlla anllinlla Bernie. Sapan kutin Brother Robert qanmanta rimapayawan
Aqui las meditaciones completas Bernie Meditation
De las cuales reproducimos las dedicadas a Fredy Roncalla (Sobre Flat tire, tambien publicado como Llanta baja) y el brother Robert Roth, editor de And Then
p 107 Fredy Roncalla
we
the passengers
needing to get
to where
we’re going
not looking
for each other
to make
our way
in this world
roll along
and then
flattened
deflated
pulled over
detained
we no longer
know
we need
to be
we
How thick
the ice
between
us
who have
never sung
together,
sharing only
our need
for a driver,
bearer
of responsibility
for our way,
to tell us
how to be?
absence
echoes
and hollows
we look
at nowhere
more comforting
than towards
each other
our distress
beyond
consolation
and then
deus
ex
machina
as passive
receptors
our
punctured
souls
patched
we move on
towards
our gaze
p 108 Robert Roth
melting
in a clash
of vulnerabilities
serious empathy
finding each other
why should
messages
be unambiguous?
empathy is
only desire
ricocheted
through soul
love’s reach
needs no target
to score
a direct hit
it is an embracing
Hawansuyo 