Snow grows old, like an actor you knew as a child
Snow grows old, like an actor you knew as a child,
It sags like a drape, so that footsteps keep on escaping
The dim mirror of the wind – you’re happy, alive or dead –
It’s not important, flushed or pale, – here’s a make-up artist,
Surging upwards, tracing cheekbones with a powder puff.
Suddenly you’re somebody that nobody knows.
Alone on this evening, your every movement will
Dissolve in an instant, without reflection,
Snow falls outside the frame, dark beckons with a nod,
And you lie, curled up, along the edge of the bed.
Without a reflection in somebody, you are without being.
Deaf, and mute, and unseen. Crows’ nests are swaying.
The wheel has rolled past, its tracks are silvery scars,
The heavens have torn apart – their edges billowing,
And the moon drifts past in a wide, frozen halo.
Translated by Emily Hardiment
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