from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
He felt the entrance's green dark descend
and wrap him in a cool silk cape he still
was donning and arranging even while,
at the transparent, distant, other end,
through the green sunlight like a green glass pane,
a single, bright white figure flashed,
as if, at just such length, it might remain,
until at last, the light, like crashing rain,
at every footstep oversplashed
the form come forward in bright bursts that then
ran shyly back into the light.
But suddenly the shade was deep, and right
there — close — eyes opened wide as though they'd been
in some fresh, vivid face, which, as if in
a portrait, lived in just that moment when
the elements of things split off again:
eternal, first, then … never to begin.
Die Schwestern
Sieh, wie sie dieselben Möglichkeiten
anders an sich tragen und verstehn,
so als sähe man verschiedne Zeiten
durch zwei gleiche Zimmer gehn.
Jede meint die andere zu stützen,
während sie doch müde an ihr ruht;
und sie können nicht einander nützen,
denn sie legen Blut auf Blut,
wenn sie sich wie früher sanft berühren
und versuchen, die Allee entlang
sich geführt zu fühlen und zu führen:
Ach, sie haben nicht denselben Gang.
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