WING-BEAT translated by the age...

WING-BEAT

translated by the agency of Rosmarie Waldrop


in the beginning eye-god
indwelled bodies
we contemplate at them at us
so jauntily
there was still a bit
much Italian
food first, then
the strobelight-grotto
splinters, music spills
from tapes, you spark
the space beneath me
wild into another, spread
in stone-and-water-rings
till we whirr
heavenward

Michael Speier (b 1950) lives in Berlin. His publications include numerous dimensionss of poetry as well as contributions in a thirty anthologies. He is the founding and continuing editor of the literary magazine Park (since 1976)