Yaak Karsunke Poems

for Ingrid

in an engraving from 1543
as big as the palm of your hand
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one after the other hands over the jar
or the horn
shuts up the piano
leans his bass against the wall
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when the house fell down
- the had been warned it was decaying
long ago & many times & always in vain -
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who ist stepping up to me from the twilight?
with half a voice in the half-night
asks the question (extremely inconvinient):
what his state had turned you into?
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unable to take off
from the ground
swifts let themselves fall
from a certain height
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for Christoph Ransmayr

not much
is known about them
(they are anatomically
...