TO FEEL IN YOUR BODY THE BLOOD Poem by Elke Erb

One day, one day, the young man's
curls

Minne means the body - The tender
smooth muscles

radiant.
Coming through the door

one day - is
day itself - Of slender

girth
down to the shoes

Down till evening, he:
who will, who is to be -

What wonders, what sweetness
till his image

is the old woman herself -

To feel in your body the blood /
turn, singing [. . .] the live coal, /

red love,
catch it with both hands