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Rozalie Hirs

ecologic [32]

like water on the spot I try to sound out the boundaries

of my environment immersion between floating plants that remain

 

from the outset articulation in tightly sewn water soldiers

that flight into sleep to the warm body premonitions

 

in the lowland peat willows merging with the darkness even

a green hawker soft and fuzzy above it all remembers

 

the large and small copper butterflies between two words

nestling now in our wild nature the bare roots tumbling 

ecologic [32]

ecologic [32]

als water ter plekke probeer ik de grenzen van mijn omgeving

af te tasten dompeling tussen drijvende planten die overblijven

 

van meet af aan articulatie in strak genaaide krabbenscheer

die vlucht in de slaap naar het warme lichaam voorgevoelens

 

in het laagveen versmelten wilgen met het donker zelfs

een groene glazenmaker zacht en wazig erboven herinnert zich

 

de grote en de kleine vuurvlinder tussen twee werelden

nestelend nu in onze wilde natuur die blote wortels tuimelend

Rozalie Hirs

Rozalie Hirs

(The Netherlands, 1965)

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ecologic [32]

like water on the spot I try to sound out the boundaries

of my environment immersion between floating plants that remain

 

from the outset articulation in tightly sewn water soldiers

that flight into sleep to the warm body premonitions

 

in the lowland peat willows merging with the darkness even

a green hawker soft and fuzzy above it all remembers

 

the large and small copper butterflies between two words

nestling now in our wild nature the bare roots tumbling 

ecologic [32]

like water on the spot I try to sound out the boundaries

of my environment immersion between floating plants that remain

 

from the outset articulation in tightly sewn water soldiers

that flight into sleep to the warm body premonitions

 

in the lowland peat willows merging with the darkness even

a green hawker soft and fuzzy above it all remembers

 

the large and small copper butterflies between two words

nestling now in our wild nature the bare roots tumbling 

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