Night Train Terminations translation Robin Moger

translation Robin Moger

The Naif lives in a practiced state of naivety—a language-fasted

the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought 'the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue

The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory

in Neem dit lichaam is sprake van een innerlijke reis

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,