English

 

 

TEMPLEHOF PARK. 21.7.2020

 

1.

 

Travel with words across forbidden borders

to an impossible peace and wealth

to endangered animals

vanished glaciers

times gone by

take the words that leave your mouth

and fly the farthest from today, closest to the heart of the matter

 

 

2.

 

Sacred words

wondrous language

can get infected

and rot

and become a cliché

but not the desire to fly beyond the galaxy

found in the word galaxy.

 

3.

 

You want us to talk here about what was and remains

but I can’t open my heart

The past is too threatening, embarrassing, and ridiculous.

You are the dead man’s ex

who forbids me from getting closer to you

 

And this night that never ends, in a word

reminds me of the possibility of touch

 

 

 

4.

 

Temple-hof

The temple of the park

steals a poem from the gods of the Hof

There is too much sky here

for one set of eyes,

 

A trumpet plays a poetic song of the leaves

Songbirds stand mid air

on two wings

The weeds in their wisdom eliminate all

possibility for concrete stones

The refugees are seen as human again

These heavens have no religion

 

 

 

5.

 

Airplane words jet from our mouths to airport ears

every day a new, I hear

their engines, every night I

fly to the land of dreams

the words lose their language, the lips, and the ears

the destination is lost completely, eliminating all possibilities

of a map

 

 

Translated by the poet