Puls / Pulse - Paul Auster

Pulse

This that recedes

will come near to us

on the other side of day.

Autumn: a single leaf

eaten by light: and the green

gaze of green upon us.

Where earth does not stop,

we, too, will become this light,

even as the light

dies

in the shape of a leaf.

Gaping eye

in the hunger of day.

Where we have not been

we will be. A tree

will take root in us

and rise in the light

of our mouths.

The day will stand before us.

The day will follow us

into the day.

Paul Auster

(Selected poems, p. 32)

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Puls

Ovo što se povlači

približiće nam se

na drugoj strani dana.

Jesen: jedan list progutan

svjetlošću: i zeleni

pogled zelenog na nas.

Tamo gdje se zemlja ne zaustavlja,

i mi ćemo postati ovo svjetlo,

čak i kad svjetlost

umre

u obliku lista.

Razjapljeno oko

u gladi dana.

Tamo gdje nijesmo bili

bićemo. Drvo će

pustiti korjen u nama

i uzdići se u svjetlost

naših usta.

Dan će stati pred nama.

Dan će nas pratiti

u dan.

Paul Auster

(Odabrane pjesme, str. 32)

Prepjev: Tijana Živaljević