Miklós Radnóti, “Foaming Sky” (trans. Clive Wilmer and György Gömöri), excerpted from Steep Path: Poems Translated from the Hungarian
[Text ID: “Sometimes the year looks back, lets out a scream, Looks back, then passes out appalled.”]
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Miklós Radnóti, “Foaming Sky” (trans. Clive Wilmer and György Gömöri), excerpted from Steep Path: Poems Translated from the Hungarian
[Text ID: “Sometimes the year looks back, lets out a scream, Looks back, then passes out appalled.”]
Miklós Radnóti, “Foaming Sky” (trans. Clive Wilmer and György Gömöri), excerpted from Steep Path: Poems Translated from the Hungarian
[Text ID: “Sometimes the year looks back, lets out a scream, Looks back, then passes out appalled.”]
Miklós Radnóti, “Foaming Sky” (trans. Clive Wilmer and György Gömöri), excerpted from Steep Path: Poems Translated from the Hungarian
[Text ID: “Again what a grim autumn’s crouched behind me And what a winter, numbed by pain and dulled!”]
“I am no coward, nor am I weak, / But tired.”
Miklós Radnóti, ‘Foaming Sky’
Miklós Radnóti, “Foaming Sky” (trans. Clive Wilmer and György Gömöri), excerpted from Steep Path: Poems Translated from the Hungarian
[Text ID: “The moon founders in foam. Across the sky A dark green track of poison has been driven. I stand and roll myself a cigarette, Slowly, carefully. I am living.”]
Miklós Radnóti, “Foaming Sky” (trans. Clive Wilmer and György Gömöri), excerpted from Steep Path: Poems Translated from the Hungarian
[Text ID: “A warm silence, alive with rustling noises, Envelops me — as before birth.”]
Foaming Sky
In the City walked Mr. Hoho, face in a sulk. Every so often he could feel their faces watching him. They were cleverer than he was, and evidently more observant, but that was just a matter of the moment, since in this form he only had two eyes. He considered staying here forever, or as long as he was able to. Mictlan wouldn't be very accepting of him. And besides, it was a nice place, nearly as secure as his own realm. But could he? They'd throw him out, eventually. Not to mention that he was still vulnerable here. That was the part that most influenced his decision. He returned to the place that he could almost call his home.