Eugene Dubnov(And Friends)
With the Face Upheld
Holding up the face,
light will gush from the throat,
a half-dark house
resounding to a minuet.
A technique to defend
dignity on edge,
a stance to privilege
this chosen end.
Grass is a sounding string;
voices in the wind;
implacable words
exhausting the vocal cords.
A step, and the mouth’s round bell,
and the hand’s trajectory;
and swivelling lips will waste
themselves in euphony.
A plaster mask or a trace
left in the empty air,
a half-dark house,
a loud minuet there.
This is blood conversing
with cathedral bells,
blood’s rhythm coursing
across the mirrored walls.
And now lit up through looking
deep in you own eyes
you will qualify death
with the first theme of words -
when out of mortal mouth
gushes the blazing light...
A half-dark house,
a resounding minuet.
Translated by Eugene Dubnovand Peter Porter
Page(s) 62
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