Vona Groarke
An Teach Tuí
Sprache: englisch
Übersetzungen:
deutsch (An Teach Tuí – The Thatched House), tschechisch (An Teach Tuí )
An Teach Tuí
Thistledown, fuchsia, flagstone floor:
this noun house has the wherewithal
to sit out centuries
squat between bog-water darkness
and rooms turned inside out to summer,
straw-coloured months of childhood
answering each other
like opposite windows
in thick-set walls
that sunlight will cajole.
Tea roses bluster the half-door.
Rain from eaves footfalls the gravel.
A robin, cocksure of himself,
frittered away all morning in the shrub.
If I knew how to fix in even one language
the noise of his wings in flight
I wouldn’t need another single word.
