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Spring 1955 • Vol. XVII No. 2 • Poetry |

Jean le Fleuve / John the River

By Ivan Goll, translated by Babette Deutsch

JEAN LE FLEUVE

Fleuve sans Terre, ohé! Route de Jean sans Terre
Qui passe sans choisir entre les rives
Rivales et cependant solidaires
L’Est-Ouest, le Oui-et-Non, la jeune et la tardive.

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