(Mistranslations from the German)
VII. In Sleep
Birds, nightmoths, spiders, and bats
sleep in the dusky trees.
Your shadow, lost, like a bird, flaps
against night’s unbroken seams.
It tries to fly out of the darkness,
but you keep your eyes tight shut,
so there is no path for it to follow.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 23, Issue 5.
William Reichard is a writer, editor, and educator. His seventh poetry collection, Our Delicate Barricades Downed, was published by Broadstone Books in April 2021.
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