EUROPEAN QUARTERLY KUKAI #12 - Winter
2015 Edition (topic: day/night)
FIRST PLACE:
night fishing -
life hangs by
a single thread
Radu
Tudosan, Bucharest, Romania
Many fishermen (who usually do not catch anything) praise their hobby for
the circumstances in which it is happening. For outings away from the urban
bustle, for the tranquility of the lake, and for the charm of the mirror with
ripples shining in the sun. Because you can think of something else than
everyday concerns, or you cannot think about anything. For the life throbbing
without harshness in the grass and water and offering you daydreams full of
innocence.
I have only
been fishing as a kid with
a thread and a
bent pin as a
hook. But I can feel moved by this promising role in this haiku. I can see
myself in the role of the one creating
a thin edge located
on the experience of unreality. Feeling the vibration
of a special moment, coloured by
the halo of concerns,
but tempted by a
thought which arose there through unexpected
circumstances.
It is nighttime and,
removing the fish out of water, in
the rod we can
see a struggling life hanging life hanging by a thread.
Alone. It is thin, but behold, it is resistant.
One moment, you can feel your own life depending suddenly on a thin
thread. Which can keep you for too long out of the environment
in which you feel like a fish in water. And, this
time, you do not feel that
the danger is devoted
to the expression used by the author,
as that thread
might break, but
you feel instead that it is too strong
and it you can hold on to it forever.
If, however, using a slight metaphor, we accept that fishing at night is the
allegorical feat of insomnia and we follow the meaning of to save, to retrieve
hardly something sunk in the depths, then the thought that life is so
endangered and fragile will actually be the great fish that we catch when we are
awake.
(Corneliu Traian Atanasiu)
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