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A Henslo Jun 2018
Poursuivi par les rafales
les cyprès se penchent au soleil –
Mistral
AH 2016
A Henslo May 2018
Zen
I gaze at the moon
while she points at the spot where
soon the sun will rise
A Henslo Apr 2018
In Shimabara's old frontiers
Illusive geisha, maiko spheres 
I seek the courteous sublime
Semblance of a long lost time
Fruit of untold fragranced tears
AH 2016
A Henslo Mar 2018
1920 AD
a babe baded
fab babe Ada
a dabbed face
a bed added
4 a fee

ca 1990
deaf
baffed
a faded face
decaf 4 a facade
2 bad
A Henslo Mar 2018
Is it a plane, is it a bird?
Is it a hairbrain, is it a nerd?
Fire and fury disbursed
Fighting for America first
Never ever second or third

Who else gave the bluebird its glitter?
Make us ponder his every word
And that collusion never occurred
It's our great community splitter
None other than Captain Twitter
A Henslo Feb 2018
Ik merk op: “De maan die minnelijke Don Juan!
Of wellicht (ik geef toe, erg straf)
Is het de luchtballon van Pape Jan
Of een dwaallicht waarnaar wij turen
Om arme zielen *** bos in te sturen.”
     Zij zegt: “U dwaalt wel erg af!”

En ik weer: “Iemand ontlokt aan het toetsenbord
Die gevoelige nocturne, muziek met het vizier
Op nacht en maneschijn, die vaak gebezigd wordt
Om de eigen leegheid vorm te geven.”
     Zegt zij: “Sloeg dat misschien op mij, zo-even?”
     “O nee, ik ben de leeghoofd hier.”

“Gij zijt, mevrouw, een ware grapjapon,
Van hyperbolen nooit gehoord,
Voor dolende gevoelens geen pardon!
Met uw hulp nuchter en rigoureus
Wordt malle lyriek in de kiem gesmoord––”
      En–– “Moet alles echt zo serieus?“
English Dutch transposition A. Henslo 2017
Original text by T.S. Eliot (1920):

CONVERSATION GALANTE

I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon!
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)    
It may be Prester John’s balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
To light poor travelers to their distress.
  She then: “How you digress!”

And I then: “Some one frames upon the keys    
That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain  
The night and moonshine; music which we seize  
To body forth our own vacuity.”
  She then: “Does this refer to me?”    
  “Oh no, it is I who am inane.”    

“You, madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,  
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!
With your aid indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute—”    
  And—“Are we then so serious?”
A Henslo Jan 2018
fake news n
I. false stories ● stories that appear to be news,
spread as a joke or to influence certain views.
II. denial ● especially when you are lying a lot
and get caught.
AH 2018
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