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from Light: “If I stand”

By Inger Christensen
Translated By Susanna Nied
If I stand
alone in the snow
it is clear
that I am a clock

how else would eternity
find its way around

Notes:

Read the translator's notes on this poem.

Source: Poetry (May 2009)
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Poetry Magazine May 2009 issue cover, with Ian Dingman's illustration, “San Francisco, No. 4.”
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