Spring

This excellent, concise 'haiku'-mood/tone poem is by the Austrian poetess Elfriede Jelinek [2007], trans. by Michael Hofmann. 

april breath 

of  boyish red 

the tongue crushes 

strawberry dreams 

                                  hack away wound 

                                  and wound the fountain 

and on the mouth 

perspiration white 

from someone's neck 

a little tooth   

has bit the finger 

of  the bride the 

                                  tabby yellow and sere 

                                  howls 

the red boy   

from the gable flies 

an animal hearkens 

in his white throat 

                                  his juice runs down 

                                  pigeon thighs 

a pale sweet spike 

still sticks 

in woman white 

lard 

an april breath 

of  boyish red