This is my modern English translation of the poem "To the boy Elis" by Georg Trakl.

These are poems about fall, falls and falling, whether in love or literally ...

Free Fall
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

These cloudless nights, the sky becomes a wheel
where suns revolve around an axle star ...
Look there, and choose. Decide which moon is yours.
Sink Lethe-ward, held only by a heel.

another for the Major 1

Of Childhood Lamenting - Song of Experience

for Nima

I am much taken by one long