Wulf Kirsten
A Feast for the Eyes
Behind the screening hedge, which scratches me,
grasping at itself, an orchard
froths up in white, the umbellifers
have run to seed, they'll harvest
thistle wool here, plucked by the wind,
the heracleums are marauding intruders,
the fruit, considered worthless,
is left to fall, a walker
in wild flight from himself heads
further towards the fermented horizon, just as
another, his senses dulled
under a blanketing haze, sought
the distant land of Elis
and King Augeas of the many herds.
grasping at itself, an orchard
froths up in white, the umbellifers
have run to seed, they'll harvest
thistle wool here, plucked by the wind,
the heracleums are marauding intruders,
the fruit, considered worthless,
is left to fall, a walker
in wild flight from himself heads
further towards the fermented horizon, just as
another, his senses dulled
under a blanketing haze, sought
the distant land of Elis
and King Augeas of the many herds.
Translated by Stefan Tobler
Page(s) 82
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