810 | Poetry

Painting by Leston Japaljarri Spencer, Australia

Poetry

At the moment of striking,
I saw in the eyes of the mole
my own life leap,
my poem find,
under the white page
as at the end of the subterranean galleries
—the long road of its breath.

Guy Goffette, Belgium 1947-2024
Translation Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley Barkan

from « Het Gevleugelde Woord – The Winged Word »
The World’s Most Beautiful Poems, Part I
POINT Editions – Boekenplan