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Green Integer Review

No. 7 (Feb 2007)
Poetry & Fiction, Interviews, Essays & Reviews, Bios, Links
Douglas Messerli, Editor


Dieter M. Gräf [Germany]

Break of the Upper Palatinate-
-Dom. Semi-
Group Photo with Unknowns
Hotel Light
Kalm


Poems translated by Andrew Shields



Break of the Upper Palatinate-

 

 

half-moon-shaped tips of broad,

four-sided iron nails, the Orient, the Mount

 

of Olives, which means: breaking of her

Upper Palatinate voice into Old Aramaic,

 

an extra miracle. Mooing of cows.

 

Water for rinsing her mouth, monitored.

Excrement, checked and measured.

 

Television, nourishment with light;

Friday passion while she broadcasts

 

the Crucifixion: drops of blood in corners

of eyes, stigmata on hands and feet,

 

spear and nail wounds. Her

headband, now bleeding, while

 

the Savior, her Galilean master,

 

crown of thorns in scalp skin,

martial eavesdropping of hammer

 

blows in front of fainting:

listeners to his shattering bones;

 

outside, those drawn by blows

revoke her ration card.

 

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-Dom. Semi-

 

your music: semi

truck to the kingdom

 

of heaven, elegant

limousine driving

up, a man

 

gets out of

the Fieseler

 

Stork, in

uniform; people

 

are naked,

gold

 

broken from

every face;

 

strictest silence.

 

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Group Photo with Unknowns

 

wolf who wolfs

down the sun;

 

the table set

for men.

 

The white

still goes to

the dog, then

 

further: heavily

closed cur

tain, striking

 

white of collar,

of horizontal

 

cigarettes. Black

bottle in middle

of the table;

 

dark half

circle round

 

the one at its head:

wolf-dog, spot on

 

his face blackening

everything. To obey

 

him until

obeying stops.

 

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Kalm

 

the dawns dried

hard, spot

 

on the ground:

nightly cleaning

 

lady of equalized

days; behind advent

 

doors: rooms,

the light, to be turned

 

off, of childhood

 

diseases, were

the best, were all —

 

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Kalm

 

cathedral of light. Pillars of smoke,

 

orchards in

the outskirts;

 

bitter struggle

for a slight rise.

 

Banners of dust; advent

 

wreaths woven from brown

yellow steppe grass:

 

blond Christ, mess

 

iah, periodically

bleeding chalice, the

 

chosen people dripping

in, then the choosers.

 

Dog whip, wolf's escutcheon.

 

Starving horses, how they

chewed wood; beneath

 

a great peach tree

the hidden command

post, machine

 

gun nests.

 

They can form a hedge

hog and then blow their.

 

Violet feet, stump stench

 

of comrades, black

lips, eye's white

 

turning pink;

contraction

 

of the heart. Urine

 

yellow ice, licked-up

condensation. Ratten

 

huber, Todt, Uncle Wolf,

 

here are your Fritzes,

in millennia: oil.

 

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Copyright ©2007 by Dieter M. Gräf, English language copyright ©2007 by Andrew Shields

 

Gräf was born in Ludwigshafen in 1960 and now lives in Berlin. His three volumes of poetry with Suhrkamp are Rauschstudie: Vater + Sohn (1994), Treibender Kopf (1997), and Westrand (2002). He recently edited th anthology Das leuchtende Buch: Die Welt als Wunder im Gedicht (Insel, 2004) and published the CD Taifun (with the composer Volker Staub; Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo; 2005). He received the Leonce and Lena Prize from the City of Darmstadt (1997) and held several fellowships, including one at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles (1999) and one at Villa Massimo in Rome (2004). He was appointed writer-in-residence at the German Festival in India in 2001 and at the Deutsches Haus at New York University in 2005.

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