Ingeborg Bachmann
Gedichte 1962-1963
Im Lot

Ingeborg Bachmann
The Collected Poems
Poems 1962-1963
What Comes Right
Another night. What comes right
with a lot of sleep and with sleep comes,
grab hold of that. Some night it will heal you.

You mustn't cry.

What comes with many days and during the day,
though you mustn't cry
if it comes every day,
try to see that, for it will heal you.

transl. by Peter Filkins