Gerhard Falkner Biography

Barefoot I walk in front of the Deutsche Bank
and speak of the ribbed man—
the ribbed man surprises in the morning
before a plot full of bones
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my first beloved
is not named laura and not liliana
she doesn't dance and doesn't sleep and isn't alive
she does not resemble god
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a stranger I awakened and early
the plug still plugged in
a woman, smaller than a horse
handed me an apple in English:
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you sleep and lie next to your hair
your white leg is propped up
and i, on whom it rests, i am the world
made glum by your sleep, am the danger
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Aphrodite, at whose command animals couple
her thighs like those of the finest Attic stallions
and dressed in robes as if sprayed with Botticelli
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