A man eats an apple in the park
and the trees bend around him
the grass has flooded from the trunks
it crowds round his feet
the pond pushes plants up the bank
the man bites a chunk from the apple
and lets it topple onto his tongue
sucks the juice from it and chews it up
the pond shrinks behind the bushes
branches point up from the trees
an animal climbs up a trunk
and springs and sprints through the field
past the green at the roadside
back past the pond through the bushes
to a man who folds his hands
in the field far off in a park.

Translated by Paul Vincent