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    This poem is divided into three sections that describe scenes of rain and horses. [1] The first section depicts a vast, dark landscape during a rainstorm and a feeling of being lost and overwhelmed. [2] The second section references a familiar song that seems to call the speaker through the rain along a winding path. [3] The final section describes exhausted horses arriving late in the rain, with the speaker encouraging them to play and leap through the window to release their energy before resting.

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    This poem is divided into three sections that describe scenes of rain and horses. [1] The first section depicts a vast, dark landscape during a rainstorm and a feeling of being lost and overwhelmed. [2] The second section references a familiar song that seems to call the speaker through the rain along a winding path. [3] The final section describes exhausted horses arriving late in the rain, with the speaker encouraging them to play and leap through the window to release their energy before resting.

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    Translation of a seminal poem by Mateja Matevski

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    This poem is divided into three sections that describe scenes of rain and horses. [1] The first section depicts a vast, dark landscape during a rainstorm and a feeling of being lost and overwhelmed. [2] The second section references a familiar song that seems to call the speaker through the rain along a winding path. [3] The final section describes exhausted horses arriving late in the rain, with the speaker encouraging them to play and leap through the window to release their energy before resting.

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    This poem is divided into three sections that describe scenes of rain and horses. [1] The first section depicts a vast, dark landscape during a rainstorm and a feeling of being lost and overwhelmed. [2] The second section references a familiar song that seems to call the speaker through the rain along a winding path. [3] The final section describes exhausted horses arriving late in the rain, with the speaker encouraging them to play and leap through the window to release their energy before resting.

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    Rains

    M. Matevski

    1. Fear

    They arrive late they arrive exhausted the horses of space


    that distant hinted rumble of forgotten speech
    Ceaselessly they stamp with their unshod hoofs
    on you slippery earth so beautiful and peaceful
    they stamp blending into darkness
    Oh where faced with this cotton mass
    of horizon without outline
    faced with the dark flesh of earth and night
    solid flesh firmly kneaded
    by a flood of eyes and the death of space
    Where oh where shall I go roaring and boundless sea
    you monotonous
    exhausted horizontal expanse
    eager for the whirlwind's cleansing
    Where oh where
    you thick dough of rain and earth
    shall I go
    stones in my hands and mud in my eyes

    2. Song

    From where come you familiar unforgettable


    song you hopeless child you naïve
    grass arrow and clay bird
    you dry and endless footpath through the rain
    silvery footpath playful viper
    where do you lead me
    Ever hinted at in water and in darkness
    sweet mane and coarse
    considerately bold
    always the grisly flesh of earth and night
    sharp mane unquiet sword of light
    on the silvery footpath of space
    like a lightbeam like lightning
    Oh carry me off carry me off my childhood
    carry me off you poem eternal unforgettable age
    you greathest illusion without metaphor
    window clumsily opened roughly deep
    for all eternity's colours.
    Carry me off through this rain winding footpath
    so you can tenderly return me to that little harbour
    to that soft home of dreams
    3. Horses

    They arrive late they arrive exhausted the horses of space


    (pale rains aimless and mute)
    at the manger of my hands at the window
    Feed yourselves I say feed yourselves you're
    sweaty and damp from the hot steam that rises
    from the night's flanks
    Play wildly till you shout
    leap you bird with your forgotten wings
    goat-legged dancer you exhausted mare
    let's leap through this window
    together and then back again
    without ever halting
    through the shadowy clarity of space

    (Translated by Zoran Anchevski)

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