Tuesday, August 12, 2008

a fluidity we cannot achieve

On hearing the striped contralto of guinea fowl,
its mock opera quivers the parsley atop its head --


The song makes its imprint
in the air, making itself felt,
a felt world. Here, there,
the stunned silence
of knowing I will not remember
what I heard;


futures
that will never happen,
a fluidity we cannot achieve
except as a child
creating possibility.


This is the untranslatable song
hidden in the earth.


From My Father and Miro, by Claudia Reder.

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