THE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
A frighteningly beautiful sunset
caused the window panes to gleam
and the milk churns to glint
in a mountain village in Austria, seen from the train.
They assuredly had alpine cows up there,
sheep and goats up there
nocturnal dreams up there
of plunging down from vertical cliffs
and ten metres from tragedy
being transformed into swallows.
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