55. From Nowhere

Zum National Poetry Month stellt Fleda Brown, Professor emerita der University of Delaware und ehemalige poet laureate des Staates Delaware bei record-eagle.com ein Gedicht des russischen Dichters Ossip Mandelstam vor:

Alone I stare into the frost’s white face.
It’s going nowhere, and I — from nowhere.
Everything ironed flat, pleated without a wrinkle:
Miraculous, the breathing plain.
Meanwhile the sun squints at this starched poverty —
The squint itself consoled, at ease …
The ten-fold forest almost the same …
And snow crunches in the eyes, innocent, like clean bread.

— January 16, 1937