Cole Swensen

You can read this poem in the following translations:

Wäre (German)

If


If the horse was white           and the green hill opened out                an animal                the lamp
of any landscape         where the angle             of incident light is an index           and the grey fence


on the other side                or any animal so largely domestic             a large white dog, for instance
coming out of the sea alone           would be alarming            with its head in your lap like a window

From: Gravesend. Unpublished manuscript

Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2010

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