Happy New Year greenness

Greenness of dark pines through a fog;

Greenness of a cloud with a burst gallbladder;

Greenness of mossy stones in rain;

Greenness uncovered by a hoop rolled by a seven-year-old girl;

Greenness of cabbage leaves in splinters of dew that bloody the fingers;

First greeness of melted snow in a circledance around a blue flower;

Greeness of a half-moon, seen with green eyes from under a wave;

And celebratory greenness of grasses hemmed graveside.

Greenesses stream into greenesses. Body into body. And the whole earth has turned into a green aquarium.

Closer, closer to the green swarming!

From Avrom Sutzkever's Green Aquarium. My translation. Happy incipient 5772!