from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Naples
Think of a fleeing man so hot he glows,
the victors close behind. This man who burns
in flight, without a warning, turns
and charges into hundreds suddenly.
With just such wild ferocity,
the glow from fruit again, again, re-throws
itself into the blue Tyrrhenian sea.
Meanwhile, the orange-boat chugs on ahead,
shuttling that fruit to where the freighter, grey
and huge, accepts what other boats convey,
from thrust to thrust (they load both fish and bread).
The scornful ship fills up its cargo bay
with coal. Its womb stands gaping like the dead.
Landschaft
Wie zuletzt, in einem Augenblick
aufgehäuft aus Hängen, Häusern, Stücken
alter Himmel und zerbrochnen Brücken,
und von drüben her, wie vom Geschick,
von dem Sonnenuntergang getroffen,
angeschuldigt, aufgerissen, offen —
ginge dort die Ortschaft tragisch aus:
fiele nicht auf einmal in das Wunde,
drin zerfließend, aus der nächsten Stunde
jener Tropfen kühlen Blaus,
der die Nacht schon in den Abend mischt,
so daß das von ferne Angefachte
sachte, wie erlöst, erlischt.
Ruhig sind die Tore und die Bogen,
durchsichtige Wolken wogen
über blassen Häuserreihn
die schon Dunkel in sich eingesogen;
aber plötzlich ist vom Mond ein Schein
durchgeglitten, licht, als hätte ein
Erzengel irgendwo sein Schwert gezogen.
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