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PARADE
It is eight in the morning,
the appletrees are in blossom, the dogs
are guarding the doors
and the winds are sleeping.
Ididn’t feel like thinking about rhymes,
Iexamine my conscience
like an old album with your photographs
which you no longer resemble
and which you have long forgotten.
Don’t worry, Ishan’t trouble you for long.
All is correct,
order arms!
INCOMPREHENSIBLE THINGS
Incomprehensible things amidst us.
“What’s this for and what is it like?”
Alittle wheel set turning between our fingers
performs its perfect motion.
But the watch isn’t going.
An appletree in full blossom at the end of January.
But winter goes on.
Apalpable feeling that someone’s calling you.
But the street is empty.
And other dings, too,
heard ahundred times:
“... so he left her because he loved her ...”
“... they made life miserable for each other
because they couldn’t bear being apart ...”
Where do these words come from, words
without logical justification,
without connection between one another,
incomprehensible
and odd?
Incomprehensible things,
let me be part of you,
pervade me with all senses,
let us touch each other
as a bow touches a violon.
Incomprehensible things,
you are within us.
Softly I utter words
and wait till you flare into life.
CALENDAR
January, February, March, April, May
and other moons.
Come, love me for a while as if you meant it!
Listen as from the gullet of the night
blood squirts and drains.
Let time pass imperceptibly
and let the seasons change
in the duration of a single kiss,
let the bright fire in the stove rejoice.
Detach me from your lips
and blood-red like a cherry pip
plant me beside you.
If only grass and soil could give me root.
I am the boy who collided with a star,
I’m bringing you the blue of the sky,
the blue bruise under your eye.
You’re good for me. You make me feel my depth.
Oh yes, I was in heaven.
I drank the rainbow’s colours!
And now to rest, like clay under the waters!
They’ve turned the lights off.
They’ve unleashed the dogs.
Before you fall asleep put me under your pillow,
I’ll gently grow into your hair.
The night is hanging like a bat head-down.
Put me in store as if I were a pear.
And keep me until Christmas, at the least!
Translated byEwald Osers
