Wednesday, April 13, 2022

ALICE PAALEN RAHON ~

 



Varda Poem

                                     for Yanko


You who taught numbers to know the rainbow


Who opened every door in the celestial city


Who always made more when there was less


Who enchanted birds


Who loved all things except the mean


Should you be seen


Dancing in your golden ashes


About half a league off our port beam


As we go out the Gate


While the sun sets clear


Will you tell us one more time


How hard it is to be human


When it's so easy to be divine



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Shapeshifter

Alice Paalen Rahon

New York Review of Books

Translated by Mary Ann Caws

2021