Christian Hawkey

& then the miniature sheep

语言: 英文

& then the miniature sheep

sighed, turning their nervous eyes
from the sleeting wind, & then the sleeting wind
formed an ice-helmet around their fist-sized, fluffy heads,
& then their heads were heavy, & hung low on their small shoulders,
& then their helmets fused with the snow gathering over the field. . . .
& when they sighed for the last time their breath filled
the helmets, & turned to snow, & the snow worked its way
inside the pink chambers of their tiny ears
until it leaked, slowly, onto their miniature, shivering brains.
Then they were truly deaf, & truly blind,
unable to see
the one arriving

On enormous snow shoes

wielding a tire iron. . . .

Christian Hawkey

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* 14.09.1969, Pine Island, Florida, 美国
居住于：Brooklyn, New York and Berlin , 美国

Christian Hawkey was born in 1969 and grew up on Pine Island in Florida. He studied Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. There he co-founded the American literature journal Jubilat, which exists since 2000. Since 2004 Hawkey is also a professor for Literature and Creative Writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Hawkey’s first collection of poems, The Book of Funnels, was released in 2004; it was followed by Citizen of in 2008. His poetry has been published in various magazines and anthologies in Sweden, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and North America. He and his wife, the German poetess Uljana Wolf, work together in translating each other’s poems into their own mother tongue.