Night Train Terminations translation Robin Moger

translation Robin Moger

Critical Quarterly

een wijk in de Buitenste Randstad

The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory

geen richtlijn

Night Train Terminations translation Robin MogerA. L. Snijders (trans. Lydia Davis) This morning at 11: 30, in the full sun, I go up into the hayloft where I haven't been for years. I climb over boxes and shelving, and open the door. A frightened owl flies straight at me, dead quiet, as quiet as a shadow can fly, I look into his eyes he's a large owl, it's not strange that I'm frightened too, we frighten each other. I myself thought that owls never move in the daytime. What the owl thinks about me,