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Word and Thread (Variation)
English Version

A little bit of thread
A little bit of thread
A little bit of thread
A little bit of thread
A little bit of thread
A little bit of thread
A little bit of thre-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-ad
A little bit of thread

The thread is broken [defeated]!
Joined [united] with the sea [Motherfucker]
The thread is broken
Who is going to come
You are always threading
The thread most broken [It is the most shattered]
That overcomes [vanquishes] [victorious]
Most broken [most worn out]
Most broken [most worn out]
Most discarded than anything
More discarded than nothing
Discarded disjoined
More discarded than all discards
Sutra, sutra, sutra
Sutra that is discarded [weakened] [dejection]
Sutra, that's a sacred text
It also means thread.
Tantra, tantra, tantra, [chanta] you are messing about
Tantra messing about
That also means thread
The
I Ching, the I Ching
Of
Tao Te Ching
Also thread
What are you thinking
Another thread
Quechua
Also a thread
Until when you are going to be
In this question
Of thread, thread, thread

These live poems are variants of the text
Palabra e Hilo/Word & Thread by Cecilia Vicuña, translated by Rosa Alcalá, Morning Star Publications, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1996

The World of Poetry
Cecilia Vicuna

Poems:
Origin of Weaving
Word and Thread

Interviews:
Poems are really like phantoms...
On Latin American Cities...


Interviews:
On Great Chilean Poets
Vicuña on the TV World


Poems:
Origin of Weaving (variation) - Spanish
Origin of Weaving (variation) - English
Origin of Weaving (original)
Word and Thread (variation) - Spanish
Word and Thread (variation) - English
Bibliography

Interviews:
Poems are really like phantoms...
On Latin American Cities...
On Great Chilean Poets...
Vicuña on the TV World...

Essays:
Cryptic Reading
Spinning the Common Thread


Essays:
20th Century Mexican Poetry
Homenaje a la Poesía Chilena
Secrets, Lies and Democracy
SUNY Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center
Web and Antiweb

Books for Sale:
The Precarious/Quipoem
Unravelling Words...
Precarious : An Installation
Poetry in Indigenous Languages
Precario/Precarious


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