Niamh Cusack reads Fairy Tale by Miroslav Holub | Readings from the Rose

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Fairy Tale, by Miroslav Holub
Read by Niamh Cusack
Translated by George Theiner
Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 1967) with permission from Bloodaxe on behalf of the estate.
He built himself a house,
his foundations,
his stones,
his walls,
his roof overhead,
his chimney and smoke,
his view from the window.
He made himself a garden,
his fence,
his thyme,
his earthworm,
his evening dew.
He cut out his bit of sky above.
And he wrapped the garden in the sky,
and the house in the garden
and packed the lot in a handkerchief
and went off
lone as an arctic fox
through the cold
unending
rain
into the world.
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