GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by)

THE VIOLIN OF THE BUSHMAN

Weak
is resonance of the sound
a one stringed bent stick
on an empty
ostrich egg.
Not an instrument for greater glory
of whoever.
Nobody else hears
what the bushman fiddles
in the steppe wind -
a pair of bow strokes long
to his own astonishment
hearing himself.

RAINER MALKOWSKI (Germany 1932-2003)
Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt

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