from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Paris
Look how he walks this city never seen
inside his darkness; how he interrupts
it like a black crack rifting through a cup's
whiteness. As if he were a sheet, a clean
new piece of paper, things are painting him
with their reflections, but he doesn't take
them in. Only his feeling stirs awake,
as if to catch the world's small waves that swim
about him. Stillness and resisting bedrock.
Then, it's as if he's waiting whom to choose,
his hand held in the gesture one might use
to give oneself away in solemn wedlock.
Eine Welke
Leicht, wie nach ihrem Tode
trägt sie die Handschuh, das Tuch.
Ein Duft aus ihrer Kommode
verdrängte den lieben Geruch,
an dem sie sich früher erkannte.
Jetzt fragte sie lange nicht, wer
sie sei (: eine ferne Verwandte),
und geht in Gedanken umher
und sorgt für ein ängstliches Zimmer,
das sie ordnet und schont,
weil es vielleicht noch immer
dasselbe Mädchen bewohnt.
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