RETINA. POST-WAR example transl...

RETINA. POST-WAR example

translated Tony Frazer

Whether you sit at wooden shacks or
before a chateau (at your feet
water plays, ripples rinsing
cold pebbles) meadows to the horizon or
right according to the dance floor where
the weekend band slaves away,
chipboard, damp, and sagging,
seen worse, said worse,
whether you're stuck in the Halber Kessel with
cheesecake, on the wrong cup,
images piling up and you travel where others
went, or whether you fall into
frozen snow, from night, November ice
in more [i]or[/i] less remote place, whether you say common
word or just point in the direction of
the