from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
In there, their paws are padding languidly,
making a stillness that can dizzy you
almost. Then, just the way a cat will see
your wandering eye and in a sudden coup
reach out and suck it down into its own
great swirling, circling maelstrom of an eye
(your gaze will flail awhile, then sink and drown;
caught, it will know itself no more, then die
when what had seemed to be an eye that sleeps
unlids itself only to slam with thunder
and yank your gaze into its blood-red deeps):
so, once, from a cathedral's dark façade,
the great rose window seized and tore asunder
the heart, and dragged it down, deep into God.
Das Kapitäl
Wie sich aus eines Traumes Ausgeburten
aufsteigend aus verwirrendem Gequäl
der nächste Tag erhebt: so gehn die Gurten
der Wölbung aus dem wirren Kapitäl
und lassen drin, gedrängt und rätselhaft
verschlungen, flügelschlagende Geschöpfe:
ihr Zögern und das Plötzliche der Köpfe
und jene starken Blätter, deren. Saft
wie Jähzorn steigt, sich schließlich überschlagend
in einer schnellen Geste, die sich ballt
und sich heraushält —: alles aufwärtsjagend,
was immer wieder mit dem Dunkel kalt
herunterfällt, wie Regen Sorge tragend
für dieses alten Wachstums Unterhalt.
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