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The Rose Window

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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In there, their paws are padding languidly,

making a stillness that can dizzy you

almost. Then, just the way a cat will see

your wandering eye and in a sudden coup

reach out and suck it down into its own

great swirling, circling maelstrom of an eye

(your gaze will flail awhile, then sink and drown;

caught, it will know itself no more, then die

when what had seemed to be an eye that sleeps

unlids itself only to slam with thunder

and yank your gaze into its blood-red deeps):

so, once, from a cathedral's dark façade,

the great rose window seized and tore asunder

the heart, and dragged it down, deep into God.

Das Kapitäl

Wie sich aus eines Traumes Ausgeburten

aufsteigend aus verwirrendem Gequäl

der nächste Tag erhebt: so gehn die Gurten

der Wölbung aus dem wirren Kapitäl

und lassen drin, gedrängt und rätselhaft

verschlungen, flügelschlagende Geschöpfe:

ihr Zögern und das Plötzliche der Köpfe

und jene starken Blätter, deren. Saft

wie Jähzorn steigt, sich schließlich überschlagend

in einer schnellen Geste, die sich ballt

und sich heraushält —: alles aufwärtsjagend,

was immer wieder mit dem Dunkel kalt

herunterfällt, wie Regen Sorge tragend

für dieses alten Wachstums Unterhalt.

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New Poems , pp. 49 - 50
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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