like a squirrel, for example

 

[ into the black atoms of the night ]

Living is no laughing matter:

you must live with great seriousness

like a squirrel, for example—

[On Living / Nazim Hikmet]

an instant of a fox & black atoms of the night...

 

an instant of a fox, few days ago, after the storm...

it is so often just an instant, frozen there, last for ever

into the black atoms of the night, with so a faint matter

under your feet, the same matter of your skin and bones,

same silence and its opposite. fox...