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Crucifixion

from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Long practiced prodding up the hill the mob

clambering Golgotha's bare-gallows skull,

the heavy henchmen lay there in a lull,

with only now and then some beefy gob

turned up to gaze at three so all-consumed.

But still their killing — rushed beyond all measure;

sloppy, yet finished and perfected — loomed

above the free men lolling at their leisure …

Till one as splattered as a butcher “Sir”ed

his captain: “One of these three just cried out!”

The mounted captain turned (he thought he'd heard it, too), with “Which one?”Had there been some shout

or groan — a calling on Elijah? All

of them now burned to see with one desire.

And so, to stay Him from His final fall,

the greedy offered vinegar to gall

the dwindling cough with which He would expire.

For they still hoped for some dramatic stroke —

perhaps Elijah might materialize?

But then the distance echoed Mary's cries,

as He himself roared out. And then He broke.

Der Auferstandene

Er vermochte niemals bis zuletzt

ihr zu weigern oder abzuneinen,

daß sie ihrer Liebe sich berühme;

und sie sank ans Kreuz in dem Kostüme

eines Schmerzes, welches ganz besetzt

war mit ihrer Liebe größten Steinen.

Aber da sie dann, um ihn zu salben,

an das Grab kam, Tränen im Gesicht,

war er auferstanden ihrethalben,

daß er seliger ihr sage: Nicht —

Sie begriff es erst in ihrer Höhle,

wie er ihr, gestärkt durch seinen Tod,

endlich das Erleichternde der Öle

und des Rührens Vorgefühl verbot,

um aus ihr die Liebende zu formen

die sich nicht mehr zum Geliebten neigt,

weil sie, hingerissen von enormen

Stürmen, seine Stimme übersteigt.

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New Poems , pp. 229 - 230
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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