Glitter, ocean, through the dark and lighten up the sky like you were lit by moonlight caused by sunlight out of sight – can’t you two, sky and ocean, spare some light for me as well through this dark night?
31: Meer mit aufgehender Sonne
I see it not yet see it – see the effects it makes on sky and waves; expect it though I only really see a faint pale light as out of nowhere (like the fire of pale foam-bursts telling me […]
32: Das Friedhofstor (Der Kirchhof)
Decay and transformation; the world is based on these as much as on creation and therefore life must cease and be restored in cycles that we cannot explain wherefore we make these stones; so something does remain. The gate is […]
33. Friedhof im Schnee
The ground that greets you welcomes you and why shrink back? You have lived off of it throughout your life; you’ll have to pay it back. Why waste your life in fear of something ever near?
34: Der Watzmann
I only ever once saw one other painting which by sheer technique would move me as much as this; I didn’t come to see it but there it was; and admiration caught me while off guard; These fluent handled brushstrokes, […]
35: Das Große Gehege
Evening falls upon the marsh and sun sinks down behind the clouds; a bluish belt on the horizon over which the light still shows Through reflections of the sunset sails a boat that’s bound for home while the trees’ dark […]
36: Wrack im Mondschein
On the side it lies as if at rest after the voyage and it seems so calm and peaceful – were it not that I have learnt in quite as hard a way as this ship that the sea is […]
37. Riesengebirge
Goodbye dear mountains, valleys; you landscapes I have known. I’ll leave you since I must and attend now to my own. Beauty clad in all those hues of brown – from dark to pale – I trust you’ll wait for […]
Flashback to Elementary School
In rainy weather I remember how she pulled over her head the wide hood of her black coat to protect her straightened hair so that she wouldn’t take the injury of curls undone by rain and falling to the wind […]
On Last Night’s Dream
Last night’s dream is now a fleeting thought – it evaded you at dawn at sun’s first beam, and if you aren’t careful, soon it’ll turn to nought It remains, lingering as a shadow in your heart – thought less […]
Your Morning Hair
A goddess wove a splendid web, but before done, by dawn she fled, and left the mass of golden, tangled thread spread out beneath your head
Your Skin
A pale shining light cast in darkness; a dream tapestry on which I might imprint my desires and write my hopes – with or without your knowledge then I’ll cloak you in them till your days are spent
My Hands Inwoven In Your Hair
My hand was once inwoven in your hair – I feel it still. My thoughts rely thereon when through the air I sense – oh, thrill! – a smell like your perfume – I couldn’t bear to carry on without […]
While You Outshine the Sun
Dancing careless through the streets in your flower dress with music in your voice and summer in your eyes. Unnoticed by your light I stand here in the shade while you outshine the sun. You laugh and flirt and talk […]
Trail of Smoke
You are a trail of smoke inside my head. Will it condense and turn to rain which falls to cool my smoldering heart? You are a vision pure and innocent like death – a secret being born out of my […]
My Hair Falls
My hair falls in heavy waves like a red tide over my forehead and covers my eyes halfway – I should cut it, but if I did the parts your hands swam through would too be cut away.
As If By…
A smell as if by flowers wafts towards me. Golden waves glide on a non-existing wind. A landscape in completion is before me. And yet it constantly seems to unwind. You smile and yet it does not reach your eye. […]
The Streetlight
You stood there, lonely shadow cast you on the pavement, the streetlight lit your hair on fire, I stood in the shade, admired how your breath escaped your lips in clouds of damp heartbreaks I stand under the golden light […]
Dewfall
Dewfall has happened in my heart, night descends warm and moist upon my soul, and therein you lie asleep calm and peaceful. I wish you would wake, I wish you could, to quell the claustrophobic silence of my room, but […]
A Vision of Her
I know not whether dawn or sunset shone but such a light was in the sky; deep turquoise in the background and clouds of saffron and vermillion, which I could not separate from her hair which waved in the light […]