Imaginary Biography
Translated by Robert Bly
First Childhood, no limits, no renunciations,no goals. Such unthinking joy.Then abruptly terror, schoolrooms, boundaries,. . captivity,and a plunge into temptation and deep loss.
Defiance. The one crushed will be the crusher. . now,and he avenges his defeats, wrestles, wins, and overpowers others, slowly, act by act.
And then all alone in space, in lightness, in cold.But deep in the shape he has made to stand erecthe takes a breath, as if reaching for the First, . . Primitive....
Then God explodes from his hiding place.
