from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
We cannot know his head, a thing undreamt-
of, with its eyes like ripening apples, though
his lamp-like torso burns still with a glow —
a lamp in which his gaze, although now trimmed,
still shines. The prow that is his breast could not
so dazzle, otherwise; no smile could run
down through the loins that have been gently spun,
on to that center where life is begot.
This stone would stand like something maimed and lopped-
off under shoulders lucent as they dropped.
It would not glimmer like a panther skin,
or from what holds it in, burst like a star.
For there's no place from which you can't be seen.
Begin now: you must change the life you are.
Kretische Artemis
Wind der Vorgebirge: war nicht ihre
Stirne wie ein lichter Gegenstand?
Glatter Gegenwind der leichten Tiere,
formtest du sie: ihr Gewand
bildend an die unbewußten Brüste
wie ein wechselvolles Vorgefühl?
Während sie, als ob sie alles wüßte,
auf das Fernste zu, geschürzt und kühl,
stürmte mit den Nymphen und den Hunden,
ihren Bogen probend, eingebunden
in den harten hohen Gurt;
manchmal nur aus fremden Siedelungen
angerufen und erzürnt bezwungen
von dem Schreien um Geburt.
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