litaratura reblogged
He dreams of tossing his eyes into the well of the coming city, dreams of dancing toward the abyss, of forgetting his days that devour things, days that create them, dreams of rising, of collapsing like the sea-forcing secrets to birth themselves, starting a new sky at the end of the sky.
Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, from Selected Poems; “The end of the sky”