AS FAR AS I KNOW

I am not really detached from my poetry

When poetry becomes a necessity, writing

means throwing dice with God

My father taught me with his whole life

failing is not so embarrassing

This man who never acknowledged his own father

beseeched me at his death bed

to figure out who his father had been

As far as I know, poetry cannot answer

such an unfathomable question

Poetry grows from tilled fields

After seeds are sown

before rapeseed flowers bloom

is a period of uncertainty

I enjoy returning home in late spring

following the back view of many disappeared

They flung dice as well and

they remained calm at their failure

Yet the calmer they were, the closer they were

to what is known as the poetic. As far as I know

the purpose of writing poetry is

to become such an elusive father