Michael Ondaatje
Nine Sentiments (IX)
Sprache: englisch
Übersetzungen:
deutsch (Die neun Gefühle (IX)), serbisch (Devet osećanja (IX))
Nine Sentiments (IX)
An old book on the poisons
of madness, a map
of forest monasteries,
a chronicle brought across
the sea in Sanskrit slokas.
I hold all these
but you have become
a ghost for me.
I hold only your shadow
since those days I drove
your nature away.
A falcon who became a coward.
I hold you the way astronomers
draw constellations for each other
in the markets of wisdom
placing shells
on a dark blanket
saying "these
are the heavens"
calculating the movement
of the great stars
