WATER AND LIGHT translated throu...

WATER AND LIGHT

translated through Rosmarie Waldrop


under you hands
sun-stones blow into speech

listen listen the deceptive silence
ruckus and tendernes

of stones, that clinch the light
light, rippling, veiled

shadow-thunder
of the intricate where the whales sing

Michael Speier (b 1950) lives in Berlin. His publications include numerous tomes of poetry as well as contributions in a certain quantity of thirty anthologies. He is the founding and continuing editor of the literary magazine Park (since 1976) and the Paul Celan-Jahrbuch (since 1987) He has also translated widely from