Well

Black white
Stone
Summer Rain
Ash
Well
Martha

Translated by John Minahane

1

Black world, radiant
footprint in water
and in the footprint a shard of glass.

2

You will stoop
and break earth below the horizon, round
as the arc of a hand on the steering-wheel.

3

You’ll straighten, you’ll hang on by the trouser-leg
to the shadow that’ll hold you, repeating
gesture after gesture
and keeping in step.

4

Who of us is black,
who white,
who weak,
who strong,
who broke earth below the horizon, round
as the arc of a hand on the steering-wheel.<

AuthorJán Ondruš
2018-08-21T17:22:54+00:00 September 8th, 2010|Categories: Poetry, Blesok no. 74|0 Comments