johannes göransson



  from "Pilot (My Throng Is Behavior)"



The cram-style anatomies                                      
were liced up
forged and rubbed in
the mollusk-nude quarrel
the crib-cage was finished
in the arcade and nacreous
in the crate where
we were anorexic








It's glittery to trammel
in a locust fever
your smile is sketchy
in a winter palace
it's glittery to cadaver on
the dance floor
your whistle pulsates
your mother is flammable
and the riffraff
has been rehearsed with lye







Alive was tampered
during a chorus line
I adored gasoline
in a megaphone pose
a tourniquet rose
around Los Angeles








We pig out the vocals
which are not properly supervised
for they are schlocky
as a mocking-bird image
unless we trample harder




October has been smudged
I have a girl-gash
it will not be dis-guised
in a disease allegory
it is art in the wilderness
it is staged and the murmur
is amplified in a costume








The Quarrel Body:

has to be scolded
should not be interrupted
should not arrive like pigs
will not constitute a wilderness
will not be hosed off






 

Pilot (nattträngselheten)

Skränanatomierna var
upplusade och drubbade
i mollusknakna gräl
röstkorgen var avslutad
på gatan med pärlemo
i skräpet var vi anorexiska



Det är glittert att trammla
med en feberkrans
genom vinterpalatsets
glittriga dansgolv
medan visslorna pulserar
din mamma är brännbar
slöddret hare blivit
lottsat i lut




Alive var fuskat
medan kören
älskade bensin
i sin mefafon pose
en törnig
losangeles pose
utan röster


Vi grisar oss med röster
som inte är lämpligt bevakade
för vi är krimskrams
som älsklingsfåagels avbild
om vi inte trampar hårdare



Oktober har blivit så flickigt
så suddigts
den kommer inte
att bli omklädd
som en sjukdomsallegori
det är en konst att mummla
så här i vildmarken
amplifierad i kostymen



Grälkroppen

Måste bli skällt
måste inte avbrytas
utbytas som grisar
måste inte vara
vilt kommer inte
att bli rensat
med slangen









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johannes göransson was born and grew up in southern Sweden but now lives in South Bend, Indiana. He is a co-editor for Action Books and the online journal Action,Yes. AB published my book "Remainland: The Selected Poems of Aase Berg" (from Swedish) last fall. ThisUgly Duckling is publishing his translation of Finland-Swedish modernist Henry Parland's "Idealrealisation." Fairy Tale Review Books is publishing Pilot  in the fall of 2007 and Apostrophe Books is publishing, A New Quarantine Will Take My Placethis spring



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