What a remarkable poem, remarkable poet, but most of all, what a
remarkable translation!  I can hear the music so clearly.

V.

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Subject: [Poem of the week] FRACTAL
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Date:    Mon, September 12, 2005 8:16 pm
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FRACTAL


In all of its parts a rose is rose
in every petal it is complete

likewise each millimetre in this continent's outline
always equals the whole of its coast

and the slightest wisp of mist
the biggest skyfilling cloud, so

a rose right down to the tiniest
outline of every single petal

and the space suffused with molecules
of scent between these petals is that rose

and does not know it.



ESTHER JANSMA

Translated by Francis R. Jones



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FRACTAL


In all of its parts a rose is rose
in every petal it is complete

likewise each millimetre in this continent’s outline
always equals the whole of its coast

and the slightest wisp of mist
the biggest skyfilling cloud, so

a rose right down to the tiniest  
outline of every single petal

and the space suffused with molecules
of scent between these petals is that rose

and does not know it.



ESTHER JANSMA

Translated by Francis R. Jones



Poem of the week:
http://netherlands.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/26516

Esther Jansma page:
http://netherlands.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/15641

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