Translated by Donald Gardner





Only the dogs run here and pant
to get to the edge of the suburb
that dissolves when you think you’re close

they almost caught me in passing
yes I know the tale of the horizon.
It comes from the shrubs where Kim sits

and smokes or from behind the bus shelter
where the assailant loiters. Or from Ivan’s
cellar he lets no one enter.

We don’t know for sure if he exists.
With a bucket on his head he’s a stupefied
superhero. What does he see that makes him pitch

like a ship in a stormy painting?
The dogs run to string all the suburbs
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