David Wilson
Groningen: Saturday Market On A Very Sunny Day
The large eve was still fresh,
perfectly intact the size of a cow’s eve
and the iris, black.
Clean black against the white eyeball.
Oh who will buy this fish-head
with a cow’s eye?
The eye remained stuck while looking up
at the nets, at the surface of the water,
at the shadows cast by the bottom of the boat …
or after being yanked in
it looked up at the sky, the knife,
at the blank face of the busy fisherman –
it looked up
with the lethargic sadness of cows
and the Renaissance emotions of praying peasants.
One by one, at different times,
the six of us separate in the crowds
distracted at every corner
by something new — one by one
this afternoon at different times
somehow we all saw
this particularly thick fish-head
with a sad cow’s eye.
And in the evening, simultaneously
we all started to speak of it.
‘Oh who will buy, who would dare buy
that fish-head?’ we wondered during supper —
unable to say more.
We were strangely thirsty.
Thirsty, thirsty, with nausea in our eyes.
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