Zbornik Mednarodnega literarnega srečanja Vilenica 2004 - Ljudmila

Juris Kronbergs
Wolf One-Eye Believes That From This Moment
There Will Only Be Half of Everything
I will long for. Half-long
That life before. Half-life
To see everything as it really is. Half-see
Each sentence will be split in half
Each leap over the stream will stop half-way
But then a half will just be half of a half
Half of which half I’ll only
half-fathom
All will be: half days, half hours, half-baked,
half done, half hearted, halfway understood,
half empty (not half full) half drunk
As I enter a newly built house, half will collapse, but
half will remain. Which half, the better half or the worse?
As I prowl the forest, half will disappear,
every other spruce, every other mushroom,
every other passion
As I go to cross the rapids, how will I know,
on which half of the bridge to go?
And the rapids beneath me will be gone. Half-gone
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