Pine-Wood Wings

AC Benus translation of "Uns/ aus den Händen/ fielen die Kameën"
by Robert Jentzsch


We/ from our hands/ watched as the cameoes lay
Slipped from our fingertips used to their caress; 
Fallen are the pearls whose tempered sight just may
Have spared us from our own distress. 

Past/ is the day. Others cheer when it concludes
With deep evening as gliding stars come to play; 
On the other hand we repent dying moods.
Pine-wood wings blowing clouds away.

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