from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
My window's there. Just now,
what softness I woke in!
(I was afloat somehow.)
How far does my life go,
and where does night begin?
I could believe that all
is mine that wraps me round —
clear as the deepest crystal ball,
yet dark, without a sound.
And I could hold the stars inside
me; that's how large my heart
seems. Gladly, free of pride,
again it let one part
whom maybe I'd begun
to love, perhaps to hold.
My gazing fate is one
unwritten, strange, and cold.
Oh, why have I been planted
in this endless black
that's almost meadow-scented,
but shunted forth and back;
though calling out, afraid
someone will hear that cry;
fated to be destroyed
in someone else and die?
Das Rosen-Innere
Wo ist zu diesem Innen
ein Außen? Auf welches Weh
legt man solches Linnen?
Welche Himmel spiegeln sich drinnen
in dem Binnensee
dieser offenen Rosen,
dieser sorglosen, sieh:
wie sie lose im Losen
liegen, als könnte nie
eine zitternde Hand sie verschütten.
Sie können sich selber kaum
halten; viele ließen
sich überfüllen und fließen
über von Innenraum
in die Tage, die immer
voller und voller sich schließen,
bis der ganze Sommer ein Zimmer
wird, ein Zimmer in einem Traum.
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