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The Donor

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Summary

Commissioned for the Painters’ Guild. It might

be that the Savior never touched him, or

perhaps no saintly bishop ever thought it right

to step up to his side and lay a light

hand on him (in this work he's posing for).

And was this all — knees yielding to the floor

(just as it's all we ever learned): to kneel

so one might rein in hard — to bring to heel

deep in the heart — what bodies will demand

to burst with: horses clenched within one's hand?

So should some huge thing finally come to be —

some something never written down or pledged —

we could expect that it would never see

us, but come close, in stark proximity,

though it were wholly, deeply self-engaged.

Der Engel

Mit einem Neigen seiner Stirne weist

er weit von sich was einschränkt und verpflichtet;

denn durch sein Herz geht riesig aufgerichtet

das ewig Kommende das kreist.

Die tiefen Himmel stehn ihm voll Gestalten,

und jede kann ihm rufen: komm, erkenn —.

Gieb seinen leichten Händen nichts zu halten

aus deinem Lastenden. Sie kämen denn

bei Nacht zu dir, dich ringender zu prüfen,

und gingen wie Erzürnte durch das Haus

und griffen dich als ob sie dich erschüfen

und brächen dich aus deiner Form heraus.

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New Poems , pp. 67 - 68
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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