Eratio


 

 

 

Of Astral Collisions and the Origins of         Gold *

 

David A. Welch

 

 

 

 

Cores

Collapsing

 

In such

Heat, this

 

Passionate pair

Of behemoths

 

Circling each

Other in

 

An interstellar

Tangoul Mortii,

 

The infinite

Violence of their

 

Story’s

End

 

Emits a faint

Signal – Er war

 

Erde in ihnen, und

Sie gruben.

 

Mponeng

Tau Tona

 

Madre de Dios

Guacamayo

 

Infinite

Violence

 

The finger of a

Strong god jabs:

 

“Dig deeper,

you!

 

And you there,

Sing!”

 

Observing

The explosion of two

 

Neutron stars,

Astrophysicists exclaim,

 

“Your golden wedding

ring came from this!”

 

Infinite violence

Sie gruben

 

Masbate

Mercury gold-child

 

Kupol

Gulag-gold

 

They dig and they dig

The ring on your finger

 

Awakens

Strike up the dance

 

Τα γενής

Τα με όντα

 

Τα όντα

 

 

 

*Italicized text in the poem is borrowed and adapted / rearranged from Paul Celan’s “There Was Earth Inside Them” and “Todesfuge.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David A. Welch is a management consultant with degrees in Journalism and Studies in Literature.  His poetry has been published in E∙ratio, Otoliths and Dappled Things.  David A. Welch is online at cindersthereare.wordpress.com.

 

 


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