Archive > Vol. 15 no. 1
Toon Tellegen
“A man found an angel...”
Translated from the Dutch by Judith Wilkinson
A man found an angel, in some out of the way place,
let’s fight, said the man,
good, said the angel
the man fought with him,
gained a victory over him,
tore him apart,
swept him up, threw him away,
scrubbed the floor
until there wasn’t a trace of him left,
rubbed his hands
and stopped thinking about him
and the angel smiled
and lifted the man up, between two fingers,
looked at him with surprise
and some emotion too,
dropped him into an abyss
and the man fell and fell,
thinking that he was walking
and that it was summer
and that his future was full of promise.