panta rhei
poetry II

blue line
death
Your Unfathomable Hope
screams from the swamp
anticipation
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blue line

i breathe a line
a line
a beautiful true
and blue line
through the glass of the
masked surgeon
through the glass marble gum
of the white
raven face

i'm held buoyant
by the streaming silence
by the line
of simmering wind and rain
by a few wisps of
white

i keep him
black
i keep him
lemon fool
raven lemon fool
safe and next to
my ammonite rain



death

remaining

will be a shore

or the end of a
furrowed lane

reaching even beyond
the last of lights

no one and nothing
must stop us

our mouth filled
with laughter

the soul
travel - clear-

the universe just
a narrow door

hinge - wide open



Your Unfathomable Hope


words bound to the world and
torn away from the breath and voice, words
your unfathomable hope
ark over a thousand floods
abundance of your voice, breath
forgetting the beautiful words
for the day and the sun, greater
than the window full of frostwork
towards the world, the sun
opening your house to summer and roses, sun
giving you the word as a present PARADISE
you can keep it

silence, your friend of night, brooding
over moonlight and wine, nettles to chew on,
wordless, worldless, your last companion
your sparkling kennel, starlit
and the whisper of wounded angels within

the poem is not the place where
death is warded off, where hunger is satisfied
it is salt, salt rubbed into wounds
when your house is resounding with rage and crying
and words bitten to pieces are preceding your muteness

barheaded words testifying the loss of time and earth
with lungs of frost and bleeding longings just before
the sleep of the tortured; honeymoons
painted on lips and eyelids while the train is incessantly moving
through a dark continent, a beautiful continent of words
and weed, lost in a cage of breaths and years; where
will you live? an echo between lines, dumb and prosaic
in undefinable rest, in silence where
the preybird of life is evading, devouring words
your name, your track, your black angel?

wings! wings!
the angel is falling, the feathers
are burning, separated and bleeding in the storm of history

the poem is not the place where beauty is cultivated, where
hope is transfigured, it is not the place where the angel is spared
when words are clinging to characters and letters
to your breath, to your almost soundless voice,
and you are sending out your first and last word: LOVE
shouting after it: Seek salvation! Come back ! I am waiting!
a thousand times and you are shaking, shaking off, shaking off ashes,
eyes full of ashes, shaking not willing to die
nor to be quiet, not now, and silence is asking
What is happening to the world? NOTHING
you say, nothing, only the shrew is rustling
in the mousetrap



Screams from the swamp

there are screams
finding their way over
from the swamp and

i run
and see myself
already half-sunk
in the mud
desperately
grabbing for reeds

'be patient!'
i shout
and reach out
with a long branch

we both then
tug
and tug

and
tug
on both sides

and it is me
who drags myself in

and in mortal fear
lashing out
thrashing about
i finally come very close
to the one

i wanted to save


Anticipation

this buzzing silence
holding its breath - sweet
the arvid murmur of
last scythes

smoke wed to glow
coupling with the
dying sun that perfects
the sleep of clouds

the undevoured light
ebbs to sustenance

in the fissures
of decaying dreams
embering to the lip
of a nomadic sky:
earth
from which my voice
escapes

eyes sleep in soil
fruit ripens

in the vacant lots
of solstice
heat recedes

light
escapes
through the interval

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