Selected Poems in English
Peter Theunynck
thanks to
Willem Groenewegen
Machteld Hardy
Raf Quagebeur
Annmarie Saur
ENGRAVING
The way people fly
in old engravings, so clear-cut
so credulous.
Between portraits of emperors
and soldiers, vertebrates and
whales, so irrefutable.
Did they lose the knack later on,
due to a loss of elasticity
in their fingers, too much lead
in their fathers?