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Literature and art index page Johannes Beilharz
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poetryby José Oliver in German, link to German biography and reviews
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Translated by Johannes Beilharz sea signs turning syllable
BLUE transcribed on land:
we children of the waters
we tumbling in blue
dazzled on shore
by the bodylight of the sun, light-
rose compass blue
on gentle white like
nightdown rescue
like wind accent
on the first syllable
Riga
Celan in Riga
i am not arriving
i am not leaving
i’ve always been here, Jurate
somebody who’s waving
from the edge of town
a moonlight, Jurate
this goodbye wave-off
this arrival misamazement
of the nightwhite day, Jurate
it’s the moonhand
just the moonhand
it’s her, the moon, Jurate
goodbye
linden lines around the eyes
we improvise the smell
a chestnut tree
blossoming its memory
for Elmar
good friday
heraldry from the forest
at the nth hour
earthworms, four of them
contractions of the outlived
in streams of blood downslope
all seasons of the year
easter eve
lumen christi, a
phrase to
repeat three times:
i am an earthworm
i am an earthworm
i am an earthworm
