from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Oh, how my body blooms — in every vein,
sweet scent — since I have known you. See? I go
more upright since, and as I walk, more lean,
while you just wait. Who are you? I must know.
See how I sense that I am moving far
away from — shedding, leaf-by-leaf — the past?
Your smile alone is left, pure star on star
above you, and above me too, at last.
And all that from my childhood years (now gone)
lies nameless still, and shines like water, I
will name for you, and on the altar stone
that catches fire from your hair, lay down,
beside those slight breasts that I wreathe it by.
Östliches Taglied
Ist dieses Bette nicht wie eine Küste,
ein Küstenstreifen nur, darauf wir liegen?
Nichts ist gewiß als deine hohen Brüste,
die mein Gefühl in Schwindeln überstiegen.
Denn diese Nacht, in der so vieles schrie,
in der sich Tiere rufen und zerreißen,
ist sie uns nicht entsetzlich fremd? Und wie:
was draußen langsam anhebt, Tag geheißen,
ist das uns denn verständlicher als sie?
Man müßte so sich ineinanderlegen
wie Blütenblätter um die Staubgefäße:
so sehr ist überall das Ungemäße
und häuft sich an und stürzt sich uns entgegen.
Doch während wir uns aneinander drücken,
um nicht zu sehen, wie es ringsum naht,
kann es aus dir, kann es aus mir sich zücken:
denn unsre Seelen leben von Verrat.
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