Marsyas, Encircled3 / Neatly Sepearated Poem by Anja Utler

him: being observed his: glistening limbs
slippery with sweat - spasms - salt will seem
whitish by the tree: the axilla flowering,
will stiffen, crystallise, then, when the skin's
shrunk by the wind, beside him parchment
will hang from the scourged limbs - the flesh conelike




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so: reeden the: leaf-spines spreading out from marshy soil: sedge
the sawgrass it: sways
the conical corn-ears - [tss] tips they cut that cuts
- [tsp] - whispers
whispering throughout - the corneal layer the fingerberries' buds - [fv]
- carved: in the wind


Translation: Tony Frazer