Amerikali sair John Lawrence Ashbery'nin dogum yildonumu (28 Temmuz 1927)
Yarin kolaydir ama bugun parsellenmemistir,
Issiz, her kir manzarasi gibi gonulsuzdur,
Sonucta nedir ki perspektif kurallari,
yalnizca ressamin derin guvensizligine gecerli olsa da
Zayif bir gerec sunmaya.
Elbette mumkundur bazi seyler
Ve belki bir kisminda basarili da olacagizdir,
Ama bunun hicbir ilgisi yoktur
bugun soz verilmis olanla,
Elimizden cikip ufukta gozden yiten manzaramizla.
Bugun yeterince buyuk bir ortu parildar,
Vaatlerin varsaydiklarini tek parca bir yuzeyde
Tutmak icin, salina salina
eve donmenize izin vererek
Daha da guclu olasiliklar
sinanmadan kalsin diye
Tomorrow is easy, but today is uncharted,
Desolate, reluctant as any landscape
To yield what are laws of perspective
After all only to the painter’s deep
Mistrust, a weak instrument though
Necessary. Of course some things
Are possible, it knows, but it doesn’t know
Which ones. Some day we will try
To do as many things as are possible
And perhaps we shall succeed at a handful
Of them, but this will not have anything
To do with what is promised today, our
Landscape sweeping out from us to disappear
On the horizon. Today enough of a cover burnishes
To keep the supposition of promises together
In one piece of surface, letting one ramble
Back home from them so that these
Even stronger possibilities can remain
Whole without being tested



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