from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
See? All is opening, and we are, too.
For purest bliss is all our selfhood has.
What's blood and darkness in the creatures grew
in us as soul, and now it cries out as
that soul goes on. It's crying out for you,
who freely take it — in your face alone,
with no gross hunger — like some scenic view.
Because of that, we think you're not the one
to whom it's crying out. But aren't you he
in whom we wholly lose ourselves — our spirit?
Could we be more in someone else? You see,
With us, eternity is transitory.
But you endure, you mouth, that we might hear it.
Yes, you abide, to say us and our story.
Der Tod des Dichters
Er lag. Sein aufgestelltes Antlitz war
bleich und verweigernd in den steilen Kissen,
seitdem die Welt und dieses von-ihr-Wissen,
von seinen Sinnen abgerissen,
zurückfiel an das teilnahmslose Jahr.
Die, so ihn leben sahen, wußten nicht,
wie sehr er Eines war mit allem diesen;
denn Dieses: diese Tiefen, diese Wiesen
und diese Wasser waren sein Gesicht.
O sein Gesicht war diese ganze Weite,
die jetzt noch zu ihm will und um ihn wirbt;
und seine Maske, die nun bang verstirbt,
ist zart und offen wie die Innenseite
von einer Frucht, die an der Luft verdirbt.
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