Siachami | Short curriculum

Σύντομο βιογραφικὸ
Γεννήθηκα στὴν Αὐστραλία. Τὸ μόνο ποὺ θυμᾶμαι εἶναι οἱ καλλίγραμμες γάμπες τῆς μητέρας μου. Τεσσάρων ἦρθα στὴν Ἑλλάδα. Σ’ἕνα χωριὸ τοῦ κάμπου. Μεταξὺ καμπαναριοῦ καὶ ἐλαιώνων, ξεκίνησα νὰ λέω ψέματα. Ἀπὸ τότε, ἀδιαλείπτως, λέω ψέματα. Ὅταν πάψω, θὰ ἔχω πεθάνει. Ἂν ἤμουν κάτι, θὰ ἤμουν στόμα. Μοιάζω πολὺ στὸν πατέρα μου. Πιστεύω στὸν Θεὸ καὶ στὸ χῶμα.Τὰ ἔχω δοκιμάσει καὶ τὰ δύο. Τὸ δεύτερο, μιὰ βροχερὴ μέρα μὲ γεύση ἀπὸ χρυσάνθεμα. Ἀπεχθάνομαι τὰ συνδετικὰ ρήματα καὶ δείχνω μιὰ προτίμηση στὰ παθητικά. Στὸν ἔρωτα διδάχτηκα τὴ λατρεία καὶ τὴν ἀυπνία. Μοῦ ἀρέσουν οἱ ἱστορίες καὶ τὰ ποιήματα. Περισσότερο ἀπὸ τοὺς ποιητές. Ἀλλὰ κάποιους τοὺς ὀνειρεύτηκα νὰ μὲ πηγαίνουν βαρκάδα. Τὸν Σολωμὸ κι ἄλλον ἕναν. Ἐγὼ δὲν εἶμαι ποιήτρια. Ἀπαγγέλλω ὅμως σὰν νὰ εἶμαι. Καὶ θέλω πολὺ νὰ γεράσω. Γιὰ νὰ ἔχω μιὰ ζεστὴ παλάμη σὰν τῆς γιαγιᾶς μου.

Short curriculum
I was born in Australia. The only thing I remember is the shapely legs of my mother. Four years old I came to Greece. To a plain village. Between the bell-tower and olive groves, I started lying. Since then, incessantly, I have been lying. When I stop, I will be dead. If I were something, I would be a mouth. I look like my father very much. I believe in God and in earth. I have tested both. The second one, one rainy day with chrysanthemum flavor. I dislike the conjunctive verbs and I show a preference to the passive ones. In love I was taught the worship and the insomnia. I like stories and poems. More than poets. But I dreamt of some of them taking me for a boat trip. Dionysios Solomos and another one. I am not a poet. However, I recite as if I were. And I do wish to grow old. To have a warm palm like my grandma’s.

Verses by Κωνσταντίνα Σιαχάμη | Constantina Siachami

Translation by Antigoni Katsadima