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  • The American Poetry Review

    THREE POEMS

    Sep 01, 2023 2 minutes

    Translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson

    Genesis

    In every cosmogony, the same primary idea is found.In the beginning, there’s onlyan undifferentiated mass tumblingIn the great vacuum of space—A vast savanna plowed by the eternal eland’s hooves:The imposing who reignsWhere they’re fluent in languages full of clicking soundsAnd eat to their hearts’ content.

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