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[Poem of the week] LONGING FOR WINTER




LONGING FOR WINTER




Too much thick leafiness 
too few branches as yet 
too little skinniness 
too lushly fat 
 			too woolly and 
too wet.

Should the knife 
not be stuck in 
the sharp blade 
			until under the skin 
the skeleton starts to shake 
its scanty bones? 

In winter their cold bums will ache. 
 
Rather than that, fat Daniel 
on snow made of rice paper, 
a thin Chinese paintbrush, 
ready for death, bowed but not breaking 

			– and yet as if it broke – 
			draws 
		two 
	black 
twigs.
    


© 1984, Hubert van Herreweghen
© Translation: 2010, Paul Vincent




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