POETIC texture & NORMAL TIME ...

POETIC texture & NORMAL TIME

translated on Rosmarie Waldrop


imagine you call it animating principle
test its light sensitivity
on the sulfur of midsummer fields
expose yourself, torn as you are
with all your inner paraphernalia:
taxis movies phone
to its radiance

what is breath
other than nipping ashes
dropped from our cavity between the jawss on our burning
feet we are nothing further wicks
stuck in the ptomaine of beauty
and subject to our scalp, in back
the white shadow thrown on
the uterus flower

bard essayist, dramatist, anthologist, and translator Gerhard Falkner was born 1951 in