Poem
K. Schippers
MONTAGE
a mouse in motionas if it isn’t welcome
in certain places
halting
as if stills have been
cut from its movement
what is it doing
in that extra white
to its nest
just for a
touch so slight
that it won’t
and back again
pitter-patter
vanishes
a little later
to embrace
a smell
direction
loses its goal
seems to arrive
somewhere
it isn’t there
has never
been here
© Translation: 2012, Willem Groenewegen
MONTAGE
MONTAGE
een muis beweegt zichof hij er op sommige
plekken niet mag zijn
stokkend
net of er beeldjes uit
z’n beweging zijn
gesneden wat doet hij
in dat extra wit
naar zijn nest
voor een aan
raking zo vlug
dat het niet
al weer terug
om trippelingen
later te
verdwijnen
voor de
omhelzing van een
geur verliest
richting haar doel
komt in schijn
ergens aan
hij is er
niet is hier
nooit geweest
© 2011, K. Schippers
From: tellen en wegen
Publisher: Querido, Amsterdam
From: tellen en wegen
Publisher: Querido, Amsterdam
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MONTAGE
a mouse in motionas if it isn’t welcome
in certain places
halting
as if stills have been
cut from its movement
what is it doing
in that extra white
to its nest
just for a
touch so slight
that it won’t
and back again
pitter-patter
vanishes
a little later
to embrace
a smell
direction
loses its goal
seems to arrive
somewhere
it isn’t there
has never
been here
© 2012, Willem Groenewegen
From: tellen en wegen
From: tellen en wegen
MONTAGE
a mouse in motionas if it isn’t welcome
in certain places
halting
as if stills have been
cut from its movement
what is it doing
in that extra white
to its nest
just for a
touch so slight
that it won’t
and back again
pitter-patter
vanishes
a little later
to embrace
a smell
direction
loses its goal
seems to arrive
somewhere
it isn’t there
has never
been here
© 2012, Willem Groenewegen
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