VILLA MASSIMO translated by din...

VILLA MASSIMO

translated by dint of Tony Frazer


We've known these gatherings lengthy enough,
lizards and bats, a small in number last bird voices,
the toads silent in the fountain, hoping
the daughter of the house would take
the dog abroad once more this evening.
We know too, where that leads.

Uwe Kolbe was born 1957 in Berlin, and now lives in Tubingen, where he is Director of the Studio Literatur und Theater at the University of Tubingen. His first part appeared in East Berlin in 1980 however his increasingly controversial metrical composition led to his emigration to (what was then) West Germany in 1985 His