e-ISSN 2499-5975
Il Tolomeo
Vol. 22 – Dicembre | December | Décembre 2020
33 DOI 10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2020/01/012
Lament
Ingrid de Kok
The great grey eagle owl Throws her weightless shawl Over evening
Fashioning earth’s second ceiling Under which small sounds Scuttle and die
While above the owl’s feathers In open neutral sky
An unnameable smaller bird Keens, grieves for its children Or even for us, calls to itself There being no heaven to call to.