Dieter M Gräf

Dieter M Gräf Poems

sky, scooter swarms, back

to the Union Hotel, its
awoken name at four (szu):
...

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(the soft paws of the organ)

(behind the back, shining
Magdalene relic) (you
...

'and failure, yes, that does it in this life'
T. Kling, Leopardi: L'Infinito / Das Unendliche

this hugely orange, table-filling ashtray,
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli's wedding present
...

to put oneself
out in an incan
descent nothing;

in the highway tunnel
a shark's mouth, diving,
...

slit side already yachted
away: mall,

hamburger hovering
...

undyed pants of the
conqueror of the exotic

world, straight razor, chess
pieces he still played
...

has clambered onto the Z of the fire
escape, showing those who live down
stairs: I've seen God! Still there,
...

'Death creates an immediate synthesis of the life that has just ended,
and the light it reflects back onto that life
illuminates the essential moments and turns them
into mythical or morals acts outside of time.'
...

it's raining, or the sun is shining.

Its way up through this
Maria air to the visibility

of the chapel. Drala
...

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toward the Swept
or Barren Place
...

Dieter M Gräf Biography

Dieter M. Gräf was born on November 24th, 1960 in Ludwigshafen on the Rhein and lived there and in Cologne; 2004/05 in Rome, New York and Vézelay; and since then as a poet in Berlin. Since 1994 his books were published by Suhrkamp, Wunderhorn, Insel and at Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, as well as in USA, in Croatia and France.)

The Best Poem Of Dieter M Gräf

Typhoon

sky, scooter swarms, back

to the Union Hotel, its
awoken name at four (szu):

the elevator's missing number
is death in the coloratura

of the beloved next door;
in the morning: the flowing

street, vanishing, muddy
torrent with drifting barrel

a boy is sitting on. One
eyed we are, toward the TV

screens more and more water
is pouring out of, death (szu).

The day before, there'd been
TVs by the pond, karaoke

corners. Opening another in the
summoned landscape, for singing,

while the instruments
stay in the speakers,

or installing a waterfall with
good-luck charm: the temple

carp. Swimming away, now.

Translated by Andrew Shields

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