Leo Yankevich - An Autumn Evening

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(after the German of Georg Trakl) The brown village. A darkness often treads Along the walls that stand in autumn. Mock- Shapes: man as well as woman, dead now, walk In the cold parlours to prepare their beds. Here young boys play. A heavy shadow spreads Over brown dung. Servant women walk Through the moist blue, and sometimes their eyes mock It, longing, as bells toll above their heads. An inn leans for the down and lonely there. Patiently it waits beneath dark arches, Moved by clouds of gold tobacco smoke, Yet always black and near. A stranger soaked In booze stands in the shade of older arches After the wild birds take to the air. Leo Yankevich poemhunter.com/poem/an-autumn-evening-2/