Of Snow, Of Soul by Jüri Talvet

Author:Jüri Talvet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9781550715422
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 2010-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Trains

1

To the train! To the train!, a cherished

colleague called. Everyone is

aboard already: diligent compatriots,

ministers, poets,

the beauty of humankind

on the Paris-New York Express!

Bon voyage, then. Once my Latvian

great-grandmother, who never in her life

got angry, told my mother,

who sat in her lap

amid the world war’s smoking ruins,

when the morning whistle from the station

pierced Mõisaküla’s bone and flesh:

That horse never waits.

2

This train was different. Crawling

slowly, sniffing the grass,

making long stops only

in border towns. It made strange

feints into clouds, grubbed up graveyard dirt, dragged

the seafloor lazily amid fish,

picked up from stations

latecomers, lovers,

fiery-eyed young men

from the platforms, you who

had forgotten how happy you were

yesterday at the kitchen

table, humming along

with abba, your fingers

drumming on your knees,

eyes seaweed,

teeth young reed.

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