Taking a nap
Taking a nap,feet planted against a cool wall
Translated by Robert Hass
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Taking a nap,feet planted against a cool wall
Translated by Robert Hass
No - I did not take a nap -The nap - took - meoff the bed and out the windowfar beyond the sea,to a land where sleepy headsread only comic booksand lock their naps in iron safesso that they can't get took
And soon as I came to that land,
I slept "like a stone," or like that vast stone-shaped building, the planetarium
No dreams I can remember: the dark unbroken blue on which the stars will take their places, like bright sheep grazing the sparse sky
The night I s...