
Photograph taken in Upper Wortley, Leeds on Wednesday, 12th January 2020
Analogon issue no.95 includes a translation into Czech by Katerina Pinosova of one of my poems, ‘Implausible’, which I had written after learning about the death of Josef Janda and is dedicated to him:
The original English version is as follows:
Implausible for Josef Janda I sometimes wonder Whether ghosts believe in me And if they have any reasons to doubt my existence Perhaps on a foggy evening One of them has seen me standing alone at the window Looking out with a puzzled expression Like a surprised rabbit Exhibited there by an unskilled taxidermist Or if I have ever manifested, inexplicably As the clock strikes noon Glimpsed by a trembling of ghosts My outline framed just for a split-second In the doorway of a pub I’d like to think so, but I daresay My existence is just too implausible Kenneth Cox