Edge Of Myself by Simon Vestdijk
The half-rural countryside I love the most: The vague pasture winds that play With the wash on the lines; the factory lots Where between the dry grass trains go about, Laden with the secrets of tracks on a pier. Because I know, that there life is worn down, And yet doesn't live, drifting, finding more Solitude than in mountains or ravines. The smoke from steam trollies and bleach factory, Or the ovens where they burn the shells, More than the smell of thyme, are kindlers of dreams, And the black calf in the meadow at the edge Is set free by an unlooked for poem And with the cinders with but one image taken in.













