Sunday, 21 March 2021

Knud Sørensen: 'Et lykkeligt øjeblik'

 

A HAPPY MOMENT

 

A happy moment

can for example come to me

in the early morning,

when my senses wake,

and when the first

and as yet undated light

is cast in through the window,

and I am brimful of glad wonder

at the crazy cock that defiantly

leaves out the prescribed ‘doodle’

in his crowing and his insane focusedness

shakes the still thin space

from his place

behind the neighbour opposite’s greenhouse:

‘Cock-a-doo, cock-a-doo.’ And all

now depends on

my prolonging my sense of wonder.

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