“They enter as animals from the outer”: This line describes how the years seem to arrive or pass by, like animals coming from far away.
“Space of holly where spikes”: It talks about a place with holly bushes that have sharp leaves.
“Are not thoughts I turn on, like a Yogi,”: Unlike a yogi who can control their thoughts, here the thoughts don’t come on intentionally.
“But greenness, darkness so pure”: Instead, it’s just pure greenness and darkness, like being surrounded by green and dark colors.
“They freeze and are.”: It feels like time stops or freezes in that moment.
“O God, I am not like you”: The speaker talks to God, saying they are different from God.
“In your vacuous black,”: They describe God’s surroundings as empty blackness.
“Stars stuck all over, bright stupid confetti.”: It’s like stars are scattered everywhere around God, like confetti, but the speaker finds them unimpressive.
“Eternity bores me,”: The idea of eternity is dull and uninteresting to the speaker.
“I never wanted it.”: They never desired or wished for eternity.
“What I love is”: The speaker expresses what they love or prefer.
“The piston in motion . . .”: They find joy in things that move, like a piston in an engine.
“My soul dies before it.”: But the excitement fades for them too quickly.
“And the hooves of the horses,”: They also love the sound of horses’ hooves.
“There merciless churn.”: The hooves make a powerful and continuous sound.
“And you, great Stasis . . .”: The speaker addresses something they call “great Stasis,” meaning something that stays still or unchanging.
“What is so great in that!”: They question what’s so special about staying still.
“Is it a tiger this year, this roar at the door?”: They wonder if greatness is found in something powerful like a roaring tiger.
“It is a Christus,”: Or maybe it’s in Christ.
“The awful”: Christ’s suffering is described as terrible.
“God-bit in him”: The divine part of Christ.
“Dying to fly and be done with it?”: It’s like Christ wants to be free from suffering.
“The blood berries are themselves, they are very still.”: The berries are quiet and still.
“The hooves will not have it,”: But the horse hooves keep moving.
“In blue distance the pistons hiss.”: In the distance, there’s the sound of pistons hissing, suggesting the ongoing motion and activity of life.
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