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The Group

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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Paris

A flower-picker forced to rush about,

Chance races to arrange a group of faces.

It spreads them wide, or crowds them tight; places

a distant couple; leaves a near one out;

swaps this for that; inspires some that droop;

weeds out a dog, tossing it from the group;

lifts up, from underneath (almost as though

through tangled stems and leaves) a head hung low,

and binds it wholly to the edge (though small),

re-reaches one last time to calibrate,

and then, to check, has barely time at all

to spring back to the middle of the mat

on which the Strong Man, in the merest stat,

is swelling up in all his glistening weight.

Schlangen-Beschwörung

Wenn auf dem Markt, sich wiegend, der Beschwörer

die Kürbisflöte pfeift, die reizt und lullt,

so kann es sein, daß er sich einen Hörer

herüberlockt, der ganz aus dem Tumult

der Buden eintritt in den Kreis der Pfeife,

die will und will und will und die erreicht,

daß das Reptil in seinem Korb sich steife

und die das steife schmeichlerisch erweicht,

abwechselnd immer schwindelnder und blinder

mit dem, was schreckt und streckt, und dem, was löst —;

und dann genügt ein Blick: so hat der Inder

dir eine Fremde eingeflößt,

in der du stirbst. Es ist als überstürze

glühender Himmel dich. Es geht ein Sprung

durch dein Gesicht. Es legen sich Gewürze

auf deine nordische Erinnerung,

die dir nichts hilft. Dich feien keine Kräfte,

die Sonne gärt, das Fieber fällt und trifft;

von böser Freude steilen sich die Schäfte,

und in den Schlangen glänzt das Gift.

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New Poems , pp. 261 - 262
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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