13.
then the phone rang
a white horse appeared
and ate from my palm
my hand crossed the red sea
it reached the promised land
stone by stone my way is clear
stone by stone my flesh becomes thinner
there was a character who came out of nowhere
the very mouth of my beloved
today I crushed a hard black beetle
that looked so much
like Else Lasker-Schüler
Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) German-Jewish poet, short story writer, playwright, and novelist of the early 20th Century, whose poems exploit a rich vein of fantasy and symbolism and alternate between pathos and ecstasy in their intensely personal evocation of her childhood and parents, romantic passion, art, religion, and other themes.
—translations by Adam J. Sorkin with loana leronim