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Venetian Morning

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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Dedicated to Richard Beer-Hofmann

Like pampered princes, windows long have seen

what often deigns to stir us up inside:

the city, which — whenever there's a sheen

of sky that strikes a feeling of the tide —

takes shape as if it would not be that way.

And there are opals every morning shows

her — opals that she wore just yesterday;

reflections drawn from the canal in rows —

reminding her of shimmering days like those.

And only then does she consent to play

the nymph that can conceive of Zeus. There ring

out at her ears her earrings. But she raises

San Giorgio Maggiore as she gazes,

idly smiling, into that lovely thing.

Spätherbst in Venedig

Nun treibt die Stadt schon nicht mehr wie ein Köder,

der alle aufgetauchten Tage fängt.

Die gläsernen Paläste klingen spröder

an deinen Blick. Und aus den Gärten hängt

der Sommer wie ein Haufen Marionetten

kopfüber, müde, umgebracht.

Aber vom Grund aus alten Waldskeletten

steigt Willen auf: als sollte über Nacht

der General des Meeres die Galeeren

verdoppeln in dem wachen Arsenal,

um schon die nächste Morgenluft zu teeren

mit einer Flotte, welche ruderschlagend

sich drängt und jäh, mit allen Flaggen tagend,

den großen Wind hat, strahlend und fatal.

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New Poems , pp. 293 - 294
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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