Ursula Krechel
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So cold was the heart that it
was afraid for itself,
it drowned language, wanted to be
called callous,
...
Birdlike an old man's voice, a croaking, a cavilling
trembling words between collapsed lips
syllables half-swallowed, nearly swallowed too
like his dentures his name, the place, walls, chimneys
...
very notion of work had disappeared.
Dictionary-warm a sun stood high
shaving off the shadows.
...
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Ursula Krechel (born 4 December 1947) is a German writer. Krechel was born in Trier. From 1966 to 1972 she studied German studies, theatre, and art history at the University of Cologne. From 1969 to 1972, she worked as a drama advisor in Dortmund. After 1972, she lived in Frankfurt am Main for many years and now works in Berlin as a writer, focusing on Lyric poetry, but also writing prose, drama, and radio drama)
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Speak, Heart!
So cold was the heart that it
was afraid for itself,
it drowned language, wanted to be
called callous,
snuggled against tiles
lived like happy maggots
under baskets of sour cherries
gnawing selflessly into the strangeness,
head first, tired, so palpitating, the heart
was speechless. What also happened
very quietly the face fell into two pieces.
Language lost its thread
scraping into the ground, without purpose.
translated by Peter Skrzynecki
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