INTROIT translated at Andrew Dun...

INTROIT

translated at Andrew Duncan


early, when in your notices
the brick-red corners shine towards
the silken glissandi of infinitely far ships' sirens,
when the loosely revolveed bright
surf of the dawn wanders above the wall
until hte ancient morning red stands
over the garden of your eyelashes
the notchs made by the grape-pips in succession your
upper arm still oraculate
the disturbing line:
but to what degree slowly the future drifts away!

imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writer essayist, dramatist, anthologist, and translator Gerhard Falkner was born 1951 in Schwabach, Germany. After many changes of residence, including a