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The Panther

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Jardin des Plantes, Paris

Scanning the bars, his gaze is grown so numb

that there is nothing left that it can hold.

Behind the thousand bars these bars become

to him, it seems as if there is no world.

The padding pace that threatens lope or canter,

turning in circles ever-smaller-sized,

is like a dance of strength around some center

in which a great will stands still, paralyzed.

Only, the pupils’ curtain lifts sometimes,

in silence, and an image rushes past,

then down the tensing stillness of the limbs,

and dies deep in the heart made fast.

Die Gazelle

Gazella dorcas

Verzauberte: wie kann der Einklang zweier

erwählter Worte je den Reim erreichen,

der in dir kommt und geht, wie auf ein Zeichen.

Aus deiner Stirne steigen Laub und Leier,

und alles Deine geht schon im Vergleich

durch Liebeslieder, deren Worte, weich

wie Rosenblätter, dem, der nicht mehr liest,

sich auf die Augen legen, die er schließt:

um dich zu sehen: hingetragen, als

wäre mit Sprüngen jeder Lauf geladen

und schösse nur nicht ab, solang der Hals

das Haupt ins Horchen hält: wie wenn beim Baden

im Wald die Badende sich unterbricht:

den Waldsee im gewendeten Gesicht.

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New Poems , pp. 59 - 60
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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