TUMBLER
Blissful state of residing below sea level or above
the clouds finding a dusty feather the bird and all
changes in the twilight comments disappear from the sun
shimmering with rain the weight the things more
or less is what we call life small white flowers that grow
between stones are there enough memories for a stream
of things compressed into a moment with this image
or feeling the grass that waves the reed sings and water only rustles
in the language of birds or whales and flows just as long
as the air around trees loses itself in time and lives
in memories uninvited evidence in the presence
of whales and birds through water smoothened pebbles
color where this is going that you live and know you will pass
as all meaning in the end your consciousness a short summer
Tumbler (translation: Willem Groenewegen & Rozalie Hirs)
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