Nemes Nagy Ágnes: Between (Között in English)
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Között (Hungarian)A levegő nagy ruhaujjai. A levegő, amin szilárdan támaszkodik madár s madártan, az érvek foszló szélein a szárny, egy percnyi ég beláthatatlan következményű lombjai, az élő pára fái, felkanyarodva akár a vágy, a fenti lombba, percenként hússzor lélegezni a zúzmarás, nagy angyalokat.
És lent a súly. A síkon röghegyek Az ég s a föld között.
A sziklák roppanásai. A nap s az éj között.
A szaggatások, hasgatások,
Éghajlatok. Feltételek. Az ég s az ég között.
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Between (English)The air's enveloping capacious sleeves.
The air on which the bird disports, with ornithology supports, wing on the ragged edge of arguments, foliage bearing astonished reports a minute of the sky takes, leaves, the trees of the tremulous mist, spiralling their longing to the upper branches, each minute breathing twenty times the huskiest angels of the frost. And here below, the weight. Upon this plain vast chunks of mountain tremulously moan; rocks, ridges of rock, peaks, though they lie are able to kneel upon one knee; sculpture, geology combine; the valley, a distraction of a minute, is displaced by blocks, the restless volumes muscling an outline on the chalky bone, identity crumpled into stone. Between the sky and ground. Loud dislocations of the rocks. As the translucent ores within sun's heat almost metallize, if glowing stone is stamped on by an animal, its claw spitting out smoke, above the rocks, rise, soar the twisting ribbons from the kindling hooves, and then the night in desolation, the night as it extinguishes, reaches in to the spine, intrinsic rock, the glacial night, and as the ligaments, joints, stone blocks wrinkle and fissure, cleaved to racks of aggravated endlessness in a splitting ungovernable trance, habitually in black and white the forging hammerings of the lightning strike - Between the day and night. The devastations, lacerations, the visions, the drought, the privations, the disproportionate resurrections, the verticals intolerably taut between the lower stretchers and the high - Meridians. Conditions. Between. Stone. Ruts of tanks. Scribbled reeds across the desert-margin, black, two lines, in the sky, on the lake, on two blackboards, a system, a coding, accents of stars, reed lettering – Between the sky and sky. |