from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
The early autumn morning — steering clear;
shunning the lindens lately singed; in doubt
about the heath house they were crowding out —
exposed new blankness: one more setting where
the children (God knows where they came from) yelled
to one another, snatching rags from embers.
But all their shouting suddenly was stilled
each time the son, from under levined timbers,
would liberate a mangled tub, or pry
a kettle loose, using a long stick lying
about. And then, like one who meant to lie,
he eyed the other children he was trying
to make believe that on that site might stand
what was no more. To him, this seemed bizarre —
more strange than Pharaoh; stranger still, by far.
And he was different — from some far-off land.
Die Gruppe
Paris
Als pflückte einer rasch zu einem Strauß:
ordnet der Zufall hastig die Gesichter,
lockert sie auf und drückt sie wieder dichter,
ergreift zwei ferne, läßt ein nahes aus,
tauscht das mit dem, blast irgendeines frisch,
wirft einen Hund, wie Kraut, aus dem Gemisch
und zieht, was niedrig schaut, wie durch verworrne
Stiele und Blätter, an dem Kopf nach vorne
und bindet es ganz klein am Rande ein;
und streckt sich wieder, ändert und verstellt
und hat nur eben Zeit, zum Augenschein
zurückzuspringen mitten auf die Matte,
auf der im nächsten Augenblick der glatte
Gewichteschwinger seine Schwere schwellt.
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