Cross Hair

CROSS HAIR Late afternoon in a farmyard the cultivator raises its arms in a gesture of silent victory the sun reflects in a pale yellow glow from the naked steel of the disks which parallel the sky and the flat earth endless horizontal lines compress the landscape and lose themselves in an infinite horizon In the night I dream of mountains and Gothic cathedrals BY FRITZ H. KÖNIG· 'FRITZ H. KÖNIG, a native of Germany, studied at the Universities of Heidelberg , Kiel, and Oslo. His Ph.D. in Comparative Literature is from the University of Iowa. He is currently Head of the Modern Language Department at the University of Northern Iowa. His publications include many translations of German and Scandinavian poetry, a volume of original poetry and articles on translation and the teaching of languages. ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW"7 ...