from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
And aren't the stars almost right here as well?
What is there that you don't embrace, since you
can't even hold the scarab's hardened shell —
carnelian kernel — without feeling too
that space that presses on the carapace
(and burdens you with all your blood can bear)?
There never was a nearer, milder space,
more gently yielding. It's been resting there
five thousand years on beetles in its keeping,
where no one's ruptured its accustomed state.
The scarabs shut themselves in; they are sleeping
beneath that space and all its cradling weight.
Buddha in der Glorie
Mitte aller Mitten, Kern der Kerne,
Mandel, die sich einschließt und versüßt, —
dieses Alles bis an alle Sterne
ist dein Fruchtfleisch: Sei gegrüßt.
Sieh, du fühlst, wie nichts mehr an dir hängt;
im Unendlichen ist deine Schale,
und dort steht der starke Saft und drängt.
Und von außen hilft ihm ein Gestrahle,
denn ganz oben werden deine Sonnen
voll und glühend umgedreht.
Doch in dir ist schon begonnen,
was die Sonnen übersteht.
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