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Ingeborg Bachmann
Anrufung des großen Bären
Mein Vogel
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Ingeborg Bachmann
The Collected Poems
Invocation of the Great Bear
My bird
Whatever happens: the devastated world
sinks back into twilight,
the forest holds its night potion ready,
and from the tower, which the sentry deserted,
the owl's gaze downward, steady and calm.
Whatever happens: you know your time,
my bird, you take your veil
and fly through the fog to me.
We peer through smoke which the riffraff inhabit.
You obey my sign, fly off
and whirl your plumage and down.
My hoary gray shoulder-mate, my weapon,
bedecked with a feather, my only weapon!
My only adornment: veil and feather from you.
Although the fir's dance of needles
singes my skin
and the hip-high bush
tempts me with fragrant leaves,
when my curls leap up,
sway and long for dampness,
stardust still tumbles
directly onto my hair.
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transl. by Peter Filkins
Anrufung des großen Bären
Mein Vogel
читать дальше
Ingeborg Bachmann
The Collected Poems
Invocation of the Great Bear
My bird
Whatever happens: the devastated world
sinks back into twilight,
the forest holds its night potion ready,
and from the tower, which the sentry deserted,
the owl's gaze downward, steady and calm.
Whatever happens: you know your time,
my bird, you take your veil
and fly through the fog to me.
We peer through smoke which the riffraff inhabit.
You obey my sign, fly off
and whirl your plumage and down.
My hoary gray shoulder-mate, my weapon,
bedecked with a feather, my only weapon!
My only adornment: veil and feather from you.
Although the fir's dance of needles
singes my skin
and the hip-high bush
tempts me with fragrant leaves,
when my curls leap up,
sway and long for dampness,
stardust still tumbles
directly onto my hair.
читать дальше
transl. by Peter Filkins