from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Wrapped in the wind, she steps out suddenly
(as if picked out), light into light. The room
is dark, as though she were someone for whom
it had been polished, just to be
a cameo's ground; to fill the open door
behind her, where a glimmer has escaped
the frame. Could evening have been there before
she offered, at the rail to which she'd stepped,
the least bit of herself — her hands — to be
one so completely and yet lightly there
(as if the house rows gave her to the air
of heaven moved by such totality)?
Begegnung in der Kastanien-Allee
Ihm ward des Eingangs grüne Dunkelheit
kühl wie ein Seidenmantel umgegeben,
den er noch nahm und ordnete: als eben
am andern transparenten Ende, weit,
aus grüner Sonne, wie aus grünen Scheiben,
weiß eine einzelne Gestalt
aufleuchtete, um lange fern zu bleiben
und schließlich, von dem Lichterniedertreiben
bei jedem Schritte überwallt,
ein helles Wechseln auf sich herzutragen,
das scheu im Blond nach hinten lief.
Aber auf einmal war der Schatten tief,
und nahe Augen lagen aufgeschlagen
in einem neuen deutlichen Gesicht,
das wie in einem Bildnis verweilte
in dem Moment, da man sich wieder teilte:
erst war es immer, und dann war es nicht.
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