ICARUS


The  name is uncertain
but it breathes:
bird, shadow
and ogive.


Before the beast
man, before
vision, splendour,
hecatomb.


Someone is crying.
One incandescent
fragment of being.


And in the feathered air
the horror...  Life
only a gangrene.




    
Translation by Andrew Yencken
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