from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Like this: just as the monstrous coming morning
rises out of the tumult of a dream
(the way a nightmare springs from its aborning),
from roiling capitals, ribs vault and seam
their dome. They leave, pent up inside these packed,
puzzling, wing-beating works: their trepidation;
the heads’ abrupt outbursts; all hesitation;
and those strong leaves, whose sap, in every bract,
surges like climbing ire, shuts in a ball,
then falling back with more than brilliant speed,
thrusts itself outward, driving upwards all
those forces that with darkness always need
to come down cold, and like some rain, will fall,
fearing for this old growth that they must feed.
Gott im Mittelalter
Und sie hatten Ihn in sich erspart
und sie wollten, daß er sei und richte,
und sie hängten schließlich wie Gewichte
(zu verhindern seine Himmelfahrt)
an ihn ihrer großen Kathedralen
Last und Masse. Und er sollte nur
über seine grenzenlosen Zahlen
zeigend kreisen und wie eine Uhr
Zeichen geben ihrem Tun und Tagwerk.
Aber plötzlich kam er ganz in Gang,
und die Leute der entsetzten Stadt
ließen ihn, vor seiner Stimme bang,
weitergehn mit ausgehängtem Schlagwerk
und entflohn vor seinem Zifferblatt.
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