Christian Morgenstern
(1871-1914)
The Funnels
Through the night there walk two funnels.
Through their bodies tapered tunnels
flows the moonlight
bright and coarse
down their
foot-
path
e.t.
c.
(Here, "e.t.c" needs to be read as "and so forth"
for my translation of this poem to work.
The much better German original
may be found
here.
T.B.)