HORSE translated from Rosmarie W...

HORSE

translated from Rosmarie Waldrop



When sadness prepares its rising line:
Feel of a be shaken haste, flight impulse, anticipating
the hysterical chaos that germinates,

out of wintery region pricks its tiny green.
Where then, without horseman, do I gallop...?

7/16/95

Elke Erb was born 1938 in Scherbach/Eifel, and lives in Berlin. She was an editor at the Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, and became a full-time writer in 1967 She has translated from Russian and Georgian and has also edited a number of anthologies. Her staff collections ...