Zbornik Mednarodnega literarnega srečanja Vilenica 2004 - Ljudmila

Juris Kronbergs
Seven Poems From Wolf One-Eye
A Strange Event
That day the sun set awkwardly
as darkness and fears gathered
Heaven’s ladder loosened and swayed
and he didn’t know if he was climbing up or down
He was in a dark and oozing tunnel
In a room that was no room
Was he breathing or just remembering
what the motions of breathing had been?
He participated in the general struggle for him
by his non-participation
and so he was, to an even greater extent,
a participant in the event
Like badly glued wallpaper the light peeled
from its designated wall that held bundles of insights
And darkness rose like a thermometer’s
mercury in the summer sun
Out of the darkness light appeared
He was weak and stretched for it
But darkness pressed him back
And light cried abandoned, despondent
And light cried with the voice of a child
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