Wednesday, October 13
OUTGOING VESSEL (excerpt) those who say that water
is doing grief's work
back and forth:
grief-enhancing
grief-inhibiting
suppression-enhancing
suppression-inhibiting
washing
massaging
touching
cradling
letting it stream through
THEY'RE LYING
those who say:
a life ends
like grass tread flat
a scent at the border of consciousness
THEY'RE LYING
a desert of nondegradability
a desert of uselessness
in that i trust
in the desert lies a pyramid
in the pyramid lies a sarcophagus
in the sarcophagus lies an orb
WHICH is the foundation of all future life
WHICH is the new path to the necessary virginity
a shaft
my own shaft of longing
with my own shaft of loss
i'II wait for you by the elevator
(Ursula Andkjær Olson, translated from Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen)