LOGOS POETRY

Title: WHILE TOM WAITS SINGS TOM TRAUBERT`S BLUES

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WHILE TOM WAITS SINGS TOM TRAUBERT`S BLUES Carlos Barbarito trans. Brian Cole °***° It is a long time since the noise of the sea came as far as here, the wind drives away its sound - waves against rocks, foam against waves in the other direction. Everything exists in silence, because silence is what is not the noise of the sea, even the thunder, the cars, the hail on corrugated iron roofs. Everything is the shape and the measure of death without that distant violent music, even though from the next garden a group of children can be heard laughing and singing as they light up with lanterns the overcast sky. ...