755 | The Untrodden road – Germain Droogenbroodt

”Poetry” painting by Larysa Golik, Ukraine
https://www.larysa-golik.de/bildergalerie/gemaelde/gemaelde.php.

THE UNTRODDEN ROAD

Uncertain
as a body sometimes hesitates
between life and death,
so hesitates sometimes the word
that awakened from its hibernation
does not directly find its way,
the untrodden road
to the poem.

Germain Droogenbroodt
Translation by the author, edited by Stanley Barkan

Ithaca 5.1.2023