On the Ear's Walk

The landscape's deepest melody flowed on
              over the banks of the resounding Middle Ages.

Do you hear, do you hear it
the way a snail hears,
that snail there who teaches,
learns deom the earth's replies, learning
the snail hears and gets there,
gets there for sure
even the slow one gets there,
even the slower one will
then get there, it will
surely get there,           into the pot.

translated by Anselm Hollo