from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
And even now, through wing-doors with their green
glass dimmed by rain, some hint can still be caught:
It is the glint of smiles — what might have been;
from happiness now lost, a trace — a sheen
there once, where it no longer leads; a scene
where it once hid, grew bright, and then forgot.
And even now, inside the swag of stone
above that door that's untouched anymore,
a bent for secrecy goes on and on,
and sympathy — in silence — for that door.
Sometimes they shudder, too, as if revealed
when shadow-winds go through reflecting panes.
Likewise, the coat of arms: its word remains,
the wall a kind of joyous letter sealed
with wild abandon. Little has been swept
away, for everything remembers still —
still weeps, still aches. And when at last you've stepped
down that far, tear-damped street, you'll feel,
for such a time, those urns in stone-cold rows
there on the roof-edge still, as if they'd frozen
and split apart, but still resolved to close
around the ashes of old “oh!”s.
Die Entführung
Oft war sie als Kind ihren Dienerinnen
entwichen, um die Nacht und den Wind (weil sie drinnen so anders sind)
draußen zu sehn an ihrem Beginnen;
doch keine Sturmnacht hatte gewiß
den riesigen Park so in Stücke gerissen,
wie ihn jetzt ihr Gewissen zerriß,
da er sie nahm von der seidenen Leiter
und sie weitertrug, weiter, weiter …:
bis der Wagen alles war.
Und sie roch ihn, den schwarzen Wagen,
um den verhalten das Jagen stand
und die Gefahr.
Und sie fand ihn mit Kaltem ausgeschlagen;
und das Schwarze und Kalte war auch in ihr.
Sie kroch in ihren Mantelkragen
und befühlte ihr Haar, als bliebe es hier,
und hörte fremd einen Fremden sagen:
Ichbinbeidir.
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