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John Burnside

SI DIEU N’EXISTAIT PAS

SI DIEU N’EXISTAIT PAS

SI DIEU N’EXISTAIT PAS

No one invents an absence:
Cadmium yellow, duckweed, the capercaillie
- see how the hand we would name restrains itself
till all our stories end in monochrome;

the path through the meadow
reaching no logical end;
nothing but colour: bedstraw and ladies’ mantle;
nothing sequential; nothing as chapter and verse.

No one invents the quiet that runs in the grass,
the summer wind, the sky, the meadowlark;
and always the gift  of the world, the undecided:
first light and damson blue ad infinitum.
John  Burnside

John Burnside

(Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1955)

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SI DIEU N’EXISTAIT PAS

No one invents an absence:
Cadmium yellow, duckweed, the capercaillie
- see how the hand we would name restrains itself
till all our stories end in monochrome;

the path through the meadow
reaching no logical end;
nothing but colour: bedstraw and ladies’ mantle;
nothing sequential; nothing as chapter and verse.

No one invents the quiet that runs in the grass,
the summer wind, the sky, the meadowlark;
and always the gift  of the world, the undecided:
first light and damson blue ad infinitum.

SI DIEU N’EXISTAIT PAS

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