from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Afraid as they have never been afraid
before — in disarray; looped; windowed; bowed
of back in ochred clay (did they explode,
these fields?) — they clutch what no one can persuade
them to release: the shrouds of which they have
grown fond. But angels come and in the sockets
and joints so long gone dry, apply their salve,
anointing each with oil. In armpit pockets,
they place whatever thing there was back then,
in his tumultuous life, that he had tried,
but failed, to taint (some warmth is there), so when
the hand of God is come, there is no chill,
as gently, He lifts up from either side,
to feel if anything is good there still.
Die Versuchung
Nein, es half nicht, daß er sich die scharfen
Stacheln einhieb in das geile Fleisch;
alle seine trächtigen Sinne warfen
unter kreißendem Gekreisch
Frühgeburten schiefe, hingeschielte
kriechende und fliegende Gesichte,
Nichte, deren nur auf ihn erpichte
Bosheit sich verband und mit ihm spielte.
Und schon hatten seine Sinne Enkel;
denn das Pack war fruchtbar in der Nacht
und in immer bunterem Gesprenkel
hingehudelt und verhundertfacht.
Aus dem Ganzen ward ein Trank gemacht:
seine Hände griffen lauter Henkel,
und der Schatten schob sich auf wie Schenkel
warm und zu Umarmungen erwacht —.
Und da schrie er nach dem Engel, schrie:
Und der Engel kam in seinem Schein
und war da: und jagte sie
wieder in den Heiligen hinein,
daß er mit Geteufel und Getier
in sich weiterringe wie seit Jahren
und sich Gott, den lange noch nicht klaren,
innen aus dem Jäsen destillier.
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