from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
As spices blend into her sleeping-drink,
she softly melts those features loosed to sleep
inside her mirror's fluency, and deep
down in it, lets her smile subside and sink.
And then she waits to watch clear liquid rise
from it, and pours the hair that she's let down
into the mirror. From her evening gown,
she lifts one wondrous shoulder, as her eyes
drink from her image quietly. She takes
in what a reeling lover would who'd face
that glass filled with mistrust, and then she makes
the gesture for her maid, but not before
she finds a candle at the mirror's base,
an armoire, and the dregs of this late hour.
Die Greisin
Weiße Freundinnen mitten im Heute
lachen und horchen und planen für morgen;
abseits erwägen gelassene Leute
langsam ihre besonderen Sorgen,
das Warum und das Wann und das Wie,
und man hört sie sagen: Ich glaube —;
aber in ihrer Spitzenhaube
ist sie sicher, als wüßte sie,
daß sie sich irren, diese und alle.
Und das Kinn, im Niederfalle,
lehnt sich an die weiße Koralle,
die den Schal zur Stirne stimmt.
Einmal aber, bei einem Gelache,
holt sie aus springenden Lidern zwei wache
Blicke und zeigt diese harte Sache,
wie man aus einem geheimen Fache
schöne ererbte Steine nimmt.
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