{"id":15187,"date":"2021-05-31T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/?p=15187"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:12:08","slug":"elizabeth-bishop-utfanhuzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/?p=15187","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Bishop, Utfanhuzer<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nUtfanhuzer<\/em><\/big><\/p>\n

It sombere skroarske
\ndat dizze moanne by \u00fas tah\u00e2ldt
\nis lyts en skraal en bitter.
\nNet ien dy\u2019t har opfleurje kin.
\nJou har in jurk, drinken,
\nbrette hin of bakte fisk \u2013
\nit lit har \u00fbnferskillich.<\/p>\n

Sy sit mar en sjocht tv.
\nNee, se sjocht nei r\u00fbs.
\n\u2018Kinst de tv net bystelle?\u2019
\n\u2018Nee,\u2019 seit se. Gjin hoop.
\nSy sjocht en sjocht mar,
\ns\u00fbnder hoop, ekspresjeleas.<\/p>\n

Har eigen klean jouwe \u00fas te tinken,
\nmar sy is net in earme wees.
\nSy hat in heit en in mem en sa,
\nfertsjinnet b\u00east aardich
\nen wy tropje har fol
\nmei streksume kost.<\/p>\n

Hjir, de fierrekiker, noadzje wy har.
\nWy sizze: \u2018Kom nei de strieljagers sjen!\u2019
\nWy sizze: \u2018Kom nei de poppe sjen!\u2019
\nOf nei de skjirreslyp dy\u2019t hiel knap
\nit folksliet spilet, snerpjend
\nop syn slypstien.
\nNeat helpt.<\/p>\n

Sy sprekt: \u2018Ik haw wat jild
\nnedich om knopen te keapjen.\u2019
\nDer om freegje fynt sy blykber
\nsinleas. Hearken, keapje knopen
\nas dat sa noadich moat,
\nde grutste yn \u2019e wr\u00e2ld \u2013
\ndozinen, by it gros!
\nKeapje foar dysels in iisko,
\nin stripboek, in auto!<\/p>\n

Har gesicht is sletten as in n\u00fat,
\nsletten as in hoeden slak
\nof in t\u00fbzenjierrich siedsje.
\nDreamt se oer trouwen?
\nOf ryk wurde? Har naaiwurk
\nis perfoarst midsmjittich.<\/p>\n

Asjeblyft! Nim \u00fas jild! Laitsje!
\nWat yn \u2019e goedichheid ha wy dien?
\nWat hat elkenien misdien
\nen wannear is dat alles beg\u00fbn?
\nDan op in dei lit se los
\ndat sy non wurde woe
\nen har famylje it opkearde.<\/p>\n

Miskien moatte wy har gean litte
\nof har fuortdaalk \u00f4fleverje
\nby it neiste kleaster \u2013 wie trouwens
\nhar moanne ferline wike al net om?<\/p>\n

Kin it w\u00eaze dat wy yn \u00fas boezem
\nin Skikgoadinne koesterje?
\nKlotho, dy\u2019t \u00fas libbens benaait
\nmei in bientich lyts fuotsje
\nop in liende naaimasine \u2013
\nbinne \u00fas lotsbeskikkings no as harres
\nen \u00fas seamen foar ivich skeef?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

House Guest<\/em><\/big><\/p>\n

The sad seamstress
\nwho stays with us this month
\nis small and thin and bitter.
\nNo one can cheer her up.
\nGive her a dress, a drink,
\nroast chicken, or fried fish\u2014
\nit\u2019s all the same to her.<\/p>\n

She sits and watches TV.
\nNo, she watches zigzags.
\n\u201cCan you adjust the TV?\u201d
\n\u201cNo,\u201d she says. No hope.
\nShe watches on and on,
\nwithout hope, without air.<\/p>\n

Her own clothes give us pause,
\nbut she\u2019s not a poor orphan.
\nShe has a father, a mother,
\nand all that, and she\u2019s earning
\nquite well, and we\u2019re stuffing
\nher with fattening foods.<\/p>\n

We invite her to use the binoculars.
\nWe say, \u201cCome see the jets!\u201d
\nWe say, \u201cCome see the baby!\u201d
\nOr the knife grinder who cleverly
\nplays the National Anthem
\non his wheel so shrilly.
\nNothing helps.<\/p>\n

She speaks: \u201cI need a little
\nmoney to buy buttons.\u201d
\nShe seems to think it\u2019s useless
\nto ask. Heavens, buy buttons,
\nif they\u2019ll do any good,
\nthe biggest in the world\u2014
\nby the dozen, by the gross!
\nBuy yourself an ice cream,
\na comic book, a car!<\/p>\n

Her face is closed as a nut,
\nclosed as a careful snail
\nor a thousand-year-old seed.
\nDoes she dream of marriage?
\nOf getting rich? Her sewing
\nis decidedly mediocre.<\/p>\n

Please! Take our money! Smile!
\nWhat on earth have we done?
\nWhat has everyone done
\nand when did it all begin?
\nThen one day she confides
\nthat she wanted to be a nun
\nand her family opposed her.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we should let her go,
\nor deliver her straight off
\nto the nearest convent\u2014and wasn\u2019t
\nher month up last week, anyway?<\/p>\n

Can it be that we nourish
\none of the Fates in our bosoms?
\nClotho, sewing our lives
\nwith a bony little foot
\non a borrowed sewing machine,
\nand our fates will be like hers,
\nand our hems crooked forever?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ut it skift \u2018New and Uncollected Work\u2019 yn The Complete Poems<\/em>, 1969. Klotho is yn de Grykske en Romeinske mytology ien fan de trije Skikgoadinnen (Moirai of Fata). Klotho spint \u00fas libbenstried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Utfanhuzer It sombere skroarske dat dizze moanne by \u00fas tah\u00e2ldt is lyts en skraal en bitter. Net ien dy\u2019t har opfleurje kin. Jou har in jurk, drinken, brette hin of bakte fisk \u2013 it lit har \u00fbnferskillich. Sy sit … Fierder l\u00eaze →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[657],"tags":[655],"class_list":["post-15187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elizabeth-bishop","tag-elizabeth-bishop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15187"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15218,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187\/revisions\/15218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}