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The Site of the Fire

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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The early autumn morning — steering clear;

shunning the lindens lately singed; in doubt

about the heath house they were crowding out —

exposed new blankness: one more setting where

the children (God knows where they came from) yelled

to one another, snatching rags from embers.

But all their shouting suddenly was stilled

each time the son, from under levined timbers,

would liberate a mangled tub, or pry

a kettle loose, using a long stick lying

about. And then, like one who meant to lie,

he eyed the other children he was trying

to make believe that on that site might stand

what was no more. To him, this seemed bizarre —

more strange than Pharaoh; stranger still, by far.

And he was different — from some far-off land.

Die Gruppe

Paris

Als pflückte einer rasch zu einem Strauß:

ordnet der Zufall hastig die Gesichter,

lockert sie auf und drückt sie wieder dichter,

ergreift zwei ferne, läßt ein nahes aus,

tauscht das mit dem, blast irgendeines frisch,

wirft einen Hund, wie Kraut, aus dem Gemisch

und zieht, was niedrig schaut, wie durch verworrne

Stiele und Blätter, an dem Kopf nach vorne

und bindet es ganz klein am Rande ein;

und streckt sich wieder, ändert und verstellt

und hat nur eben Zeit, zum Augenschein

zurückzuspringen mitten auf die Matte,

auf der im nächsten Augenblick der glatte

Gewichteschwinger seine Schwere schwellt.

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New Poems , pp. 259 - 260
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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