from Amen
Autumn
Ah, a sound I recognize – autumn’s rambling gust
Here already; deep inside the forests it breeds thunder
Silently, and cripples overloaded orchards.
A solemn wind that’s like us, speaking our language
Where disaster sings an undertone.
Let us offer him
The roses’ waning, smells by the cartload slowly pouring
Into the valley, and stanzas of birdsong he unravels
In the warmth that cupped our sleep.
This evening’s
Sky long shut within its brightness, expands and breaks away
Dragging the horizon of its slant sail; and the blue
Once our habitual threshold, moves off in long strides
Through the creased vale lying open for the rain to read.
poetrymagazines note: revised versions of those translations of Jacques Réda’s poems will appear in a new collection, to be published by Anvil Press in September 2005:
Title: Treading Lightly, Selected Poems 1961-1975, by Jacques Réda,
translated by Jennie Feldman ISBN 0 85646 380 9
A collection Jennie Feldman's own poems is forthcoming from Anvil Press at the same time, Sept. 2005:
Title: The Lost Notebook, by Jennie Feldman ISBN 0 85646 381 7
Translated by Jennie Feldman
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