They Spoke to Me Poem by Yves Bonnefoy

They Spoke to Me

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They said to me no, don't take any, no, don't touch, that is burning
hot. No, don't try to touch, to hold, that weighs too much, that
hurts.

They said to me: Read, write. And I tried, I took up a word, but it
struggled, it clucked like a frightened hen, wounded, in a cage of
black straw, spotted with old traces of   blood.

TRANSLATED BY MARY ANN CAWS

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kinga Fabó 02 July 2016

Yves Bonnefoy died. Let's remember him with his wonderful philosophical poem, 'Passerby, Do You Want to Know? '

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