from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
The image of a world takes shape up there,
through glances he must constantly renew.
Some secret thing, though, comes at times, and where
he stands, stands next to him. In nosing through
that image, down there he's both strange and not —
some other neither welcomed nor cast out,
and spending his reality, in doubt
almost, on things his gaze has not quite got —
though prodding, still, whatever will resist,
and pushing, pleading, till he nearly knows;
assenting to what he at last forgoes
because if he does not, he won't exist.
Der Käferstein
Sind nicht Sterne fast in deiner Nähe
und was giebt es, das du nicht umspannst,
da du dieser harten Skarabäe
Karneolkern gar nicht fassen kannst
ohne jenen Raum, der ihre Schilder
niederhält, auf deinem ganzen Blut
mitzutragen; niemals war er milder,
näher, hingegebener. Er ruht
seit Jahrtausenden auf diesen Käfern,
wo ihn keiner braucht und unterbricht;
und die Käfer schließen sich und schläfern
unter seinem wiegenden Gewicht.
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