Selamat Datang di Daratan Tak Bertuan – Sam Wagan Watson

Semua rambu terbaca, SENYUMLAH … KAU DIPOTRET, Selamat Datang di Daratan Tak Bertuan, kau berdiri pada Terra Firma, yang dinamai penjelajah Terra Australis, dan disentuh ulang oleh penjelajah sebagai Terra Nullius, yang mencuri impian tanah ini, Terra Firma mungkin jadi target berikutnya Perang Teror, dari Terra Australis, ke Hukum Anti-Teror, SENYUMLAH … KAU DIPOTRET, Selamat Datang di Daratan Tak Bertuan, Terra

All the signs read, SMILE … YOU’RE ON CAMERA, Welcome to
No Man’s Land, you’re standing on Terra Firma, that some
explorer once coined Terra Australis, and another explorer then
retouched with Terra Nullius, that stole this land’s dreams,
Terra Firma could be the next target in the War on Terror, from Terra
Australis, to Anti-terror Laws, SMILE … YOU’RE ON CAMERA, Welcome
to No Man’s Land, Terra Australis, with its Terra Firma, deemed Terra Nullius,

Kafein Kopi Bali
dan puisi
Pantas aku tak bisa tidur

dari sungai malam burung hantu menyapa Di mana pasanganmu?

panas musim hujan gatal keringat daun telingaku yang tertindik

kelembaban udara terlalu tebal untuk nafas suburkan pakis

fajar Ubud seserpih bulan sabit menelusup di bawah atap alang-alang

Wayang kulit bayangan tupai melompat melintas daun tersinari mentari

hati-hati! setandan pisang berat di atas kepala

tukang kayu memotong di ketinggian

Kopi Bali caffeine and poetry no wonder I can’t sleep

from the night river one owl calls where is your mate?

monsoon heat sweat itches my pierced ear lobes

humidity air too thick to breath flourishes epiphytes

Ubud dawn sliver of crescent moon slides under alang-alang thatch

Wayang kulit across sunlit leaf shadow of squirrel-leap

hati-hati! bunch of bananas heavy overhead

tukang kayu chopping high in banyan both protected by sacred cloth

young man stretches

Kopi Bali caffeine and poetry no wonder I can’t sleep

from the night river one owl calls where is your mate?

monsoon heat sweat itches my pierced ear lobes

humidity air too thick to breath flourishes epiphytes

Ubud dawn sliver of crescent moon slides under alang-alang thatch

Wayang kulit across sunlit leaf shadow of squirrel-leap

hati-hati! bunch of bananas heavy overhead

tukang kayu chopping high in banyan both protected by sacred cloth

young man stretches