Escape// Wild Animal ( Poetry by Enno de Witt)

 

ESCAPE

When she passes, the street is a sigh

of fragrant flowers - cell phones race

along digital highways with in their wake

news from fronts and images fleeting like

essential oils, but as she passes the road

is a tunnel of longing for beauty and

intoxicating scents, flowing as from a

fountain, saturating us as she passes.

WILD ANIMAL

If I could choose what kind of animal

I wanted to be, it would be wild and

relentless, rather than the fish in their

shoals or what crawls in deepest darkness

across the bottom of oceans and lies gasping

for life in the market - the pack was lost 

in the vastness of the North German

lowlands and I went west alone, 

where there was a land flowing

with milk and honey, pushed over a girl

walking with her father in a park,

filled my stomach with sheep and later also

people, nothing could bother me,

in the end loneliness killed me.

About The Author 

Enno de Witt’s poetry and artwork are firmly rooted in a tradition that goes all the way back to the dawn of language and to his youth on the Dutch North Sea coast. De Witt lives in the medieval city of Deventer on the banks of the river IJssel in The Netherlands. His poetry and art is published in The Netherlands, the USA and the UK.