Eternity & Oranges

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6404-9
Verlag: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 136 g

Reihe: Pitt Poetry

Confession

Night came to hurt us from across the island,
resurrecting crickets in the old well.
You’d removed both of your arms and your hair
had turned to ash by the time I touched it.
If you go, I asked, how will we speak to those dead?
I said this knowing we couldn’t ever.
Yet monks had put out a wooden table
and were waiting for the blood and bread.
All day, the mountain. Talking and falling apart.
I had to carry you most of the way.
All day: eternity and oranges,
stones and some fear I could and couldn’t see.
Now, a half moon and the stars were roaring.
The orchard behind us was roaring too.
I couldn’t bear their chanting anymore
and urged myself to disappear, like you.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bakken, Christopher

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Bakken is department chair and Frederick F. Seeley Professor of English at Allegheny College. He is the author of the poetry collections After Greece and Goat Funeral. He is also co-translator of The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios, and the author of Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table.