GRAVITATION translated accordin...

GRAVITATION

translated according to Susan Bernofsky


distance
calls forth harder signs. your leg
twitches in a dream when you hear
the asphalt's leaves, insects
on feet of clay. the of advanced age

order is gone upturn leaving alone
a trembling inside the
apparatus. the arrows
are beginning to speak; tomorrow
the snakes will be straightened.

every piece of poetry moves slowly
from above to below, from below
to above. it maintains
its avow unyielding nature, still turning
burnt-out blow heads
toward the day-star the self
embodies the self and when it
throw back the lid
it