remarkably JESUS translated by ...

remarkably JESUS

translated by way of Rosmarie Waldrop



Below the mosaic dome of the apse a strip of sheep,
rams, six each from the left and from the right.

From the united in the middle,
the runt the additional one out,
the thirteenth--

as if dwindled
in a secret noose--

to those others: a charge of inner light in the same state [i]or[/i] condition
that their backs appear to be to take wing.

Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome 3/8/95

Elke Erb was born 1938 in Scherbach/Eifel, and lives in Berlin. She was an editor at the Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, and became a full-time writer in 1967 She has translated