Four Konstrukce | Joshua Calladine-Jones

Years

The night was for both us
demanding.

I picked him, he go to bed.
I remember it ten years.

Ten years, I remember it.
I picked him, he go to bed.

I think it’s man point of view,
I have many friends

woman who in the same situation
will be very stressed.

The baby in the pram, it was winter,
the baby of the cold arms.

The night was for both of us
demanding.

I don’t know be better. I want some
scenario. I don’t know how.

He take off his socks, the baby of the cold arms,
crying.

I want some scenario. I don’t know how.
I don’t know be better.

Yes, because he is very tired,
he is tired and go to the sleep.

Ten years, I remember it.
I picked him, he go to bed.

It’s attack for my patience and I think
I will go to the bed after this.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow we are waiting visit.
We are waiting on the terrace.

I don’t know why because nothing
new matter or became anything.

I’m more tired than usually,
as for a long time regime.

We will be celebrate without
any people. Nothing new matter.

We start with preparing,
start with to decorate, he has, it has

many what it can do, but
it’s more and more small issues.

They must to writing
any documents. We are still

in good condition, but
maybe today melancholic mood.

It was a little problem. It was new
experience for me. I still must

get a new experience. I still must get
a new experience for me.

Maybe it will be better. Underground
floor we have a little small but long

hill. Each candle you must fire.
Maybe today melancholic mood.

Accident

Nice to meeting you. The pain
is wrapped in plastic. It is no good
for a gift.

It will be relatively short and easy for she,
she loves the process of to break
the paper.

Cutlery, dishes, plastic for she,
in the future she will be sad, when she is unhide,
new on the scene.

He is the author of the accident.
I don’t see nothing,
due to people on the street, anyone,

as this is a crazy place.
It will be relatively short and easy for she.
She loved to make the mess.

I know you are the grandchildren,
you are the owner of every flowers.
These flowers are for the cemetery.

Words

It’s only internal, okay. My words
are not always so good, and I even don’t want,
because its so fragile they have to put chemicals to it.
They should rotate and they don’t rotate.
There are not such a details.
It’s surgery in advance if you need them,
sometimes they don’t follow the rules
and they damage the soil.
Later on when some big rains come,
all the mud is coming down from them,
the fields cannot catch the water—
this is a topic for a long time and nothing really has changed.

Joshua Calladine-Jones is an English writer and the literary-critic-in-residence at Prague Writers’ Festival. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Stinging Fly, Freedom, 3:AM, and Literární.cz. He writes the Heard Melodies column for the journal, Deadset. His pamphlet of poems, Constructions, is to be published by tall-lighthouse in 2021.