Erik Spinoy

1960 / Aalst

[A wolf]

A wolf
is like a house
with two gaps gaping:

one gap
that never knew a front door

the hollow
of the cellar's vent-hole.

Through empty windows
ivy and vine creep in,
taking over the rooms.

In cellars dwells
the invertebrate
that spins and spins
its blind circular course.

Translated by Peter Nijmeijer
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