I've Looked So Much....

Youth Lagoon - July (2011: The Year of Hibernation)

memory is more neat

when it disappears

By Lena Retamoso

(Translated by the author)

Panda Bear - Ponytail (2007: Person Pitch)

“I’ve looked on beauty so much

that my vision overflows with it.

The body’s lines. Red lips. Sensual limbs.

Hair as though stolen from Greek statues,

always lovely, even uncombed,

and falling slightly over pale foreheads.

Figures of love, as my poetry desired them

.... in the nights when I was young,

encountered secretly in those nights.”

By Konstantinos Kavafis (Greece, 1863-1933)

Poem: I’ve Looked So Much.... (Translated by Edmund Keeley / Philip Sherrard)

"This song makes me feel like being showered under thousands of shooting stars."

 - Lena Retamoso