Ehm, Tomaž Šalamun | translation by Michael Thomas Taren

← v9n2, Fall 2010

I glide and love you, up to your

toes. I’ll eat you and kill you.

I see green windows. I ironed

moths. I restore graves

to life. Your tongue, with the snow.

In cascade. Look, the eyes are

mantras. You’re sculpture

coagulating. Then,

in the lake, I can swim butterfly

stroke and set a record.

You wind around me. You wind

around you. The rain falls, too,

and I see the sun. And even when

the sun shines, I see the sun.

love desire translation

Michael Thomas Taren

Michael Thomas Taren’s poetry has been published in Colorado Review . His translations of Tomaž Šalamun's work appear in the anthologies 7 Poets, 4 Days, 1 Book (Trinity University Press, 2009) and Slovene Sampler (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008), as well as in journals, including Chicago Review, A Public Space, Poetry Review , Fulcrum , Colorado Review , Ninth Letter , jubilat , Poetry London , and Circumference . Taren is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop.