| From the book The Wild Rose | Legends and Fantasies
(1976 - 1978) |  |
Names fly out of the magical horn,
but the meadow chooses the language:
reasoned – it touched the alphabet of reason,
crazy – it arose as a whole word.
There the older life breathlessly picked up
the solitary Egyptian flower.
Another interfered and breaks the twigs
and presses damp hands to the cheeks...
Richard McKane
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The names fly out of a magical horn,
but the meadow chooses the language:
intelligent – it touched the alphabet of reason,
insane – it emerged like a word.
There, holding its breath, an ancient life lifts
a cloistered Egyptian blossom.
The other life lost its way and now breaks branches
pressing wet hands to its cheeks…
Slava I. Yastremski and Michel Naydan | |
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