Friday, August 19, 2022

Testimony by Dan Pagis

Testimony


No no: they definitely were
human beings: uniforms, boots.
How to explain? They were created
in the image.
 
I was a shade.
A different creator made me.
 
And he in his mercy left nothing of me that would die.
And I fled to him, rose weightless, blue,
forgiving – I would even say: apologizing –
smoke to omnipotent smoke
without image or likeness.
 
(Translated by Stephen Mitchell)



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