Drift Ice Poem by Anneke Brassinga

Drift Ice



The shining mist already outlines shadows.
We pull up the water right to our chins
like sheets, so ripplingly cool and fresh-starched,
we come to be bedded together, forever entwined
in the gauze of times past, when peacefully
no word we gave to what binds us, sleep
of unmoored reason, towards dreamed-up monsters.

Translation: 2007, John Irons

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Anneke Brassinga

Anneke Brassinga

Schaarsbergen, Arnhem
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