Elmar Kuiper was the RIXT poet of the month February 2023. You can read his original Frisian poems of that month here. The translation of one of them – ‘HUMAN BEING’ – is published here.
HUMAN BEING he is clean like a river but slibs up at the mouth he lets his Swiss shepherd fly after a stick on the cinder path rhymes a mallard not with the man he is fair like a bullet at the edge of the city he twirls the steel for the arena, where he will sing in canon he’s pitch perfect like a rock skims across the old canal smooth and flat is his word © Elmar Kuiper translation: Trevor Scarse