Big thanks to everyone that played "A Secret Poem." It was wonderful to see so many of you with your game cards seeking out clues and sharing answers during the Festival.
Herewith the secret is revealed:
This Poem Is in Finish
toggle here for translation
While I remain in English, either stranded or
As one drunken and wheeled to a paddy
Wagon. There was a time I drank blueberry
Wine but that was long ago and my powers
Of recollection are still too strong to forget.
As one overcome by waves of wanton flashbacks,
Acid dreams of moments all too real, finds
Himself mirrored by the mind of a very little
Boy trapped in the body of an old man.
written especially for the 2011 Chicago Humanities Festival
by Charles Bernstein
(Bernstein's 2011 CHF program "Attack of the Difficult Poems" is already posted online. Listen here.)
At all CHF venues and online: until 5:00 pm, Nov. 14
Tags: poem, poetry, bernstein, game, finish, translation
