Calamus

Calamus

Goats gallivant on the mountains
that person sees the rain come in on the goats’ backs
when the children picking calamus

say that just now they could still see
there was a sun

Calamus hangs above the wooden door
a woman washes and
suddenly thinks of that one cow
which two days ago got sick

the cow cart had arrived from far away
this person had bundled some calamus
and in the evening stewed a broth

Goats are again gallivanting on the mountains
the clouds are so white, so white
but that person bares a black countenance

CALAMUS