In Denmark you’ll find house by house, some thousand small ones on a line, with reddish roofs and chimney smoke which smells of dinner time. Some thousand yards with flowerbeds where herbs and asters grow – church towers behind hillsides, […]
In the cold room where the candle splutters in its stick, she lies, the dead, thereon the bed ‘tween rags, covered with a sheet. On the wall her shadow is shifting fantastically in the gloomy stillness. – Good, she found […]
Down there in the alley life is noisy and people yell and deal with their affairs – Here in my wigwam all is peace and quiet, and everything is how I want it here. See over rooftops the clear sky […]
Now it’s quiet in the alley, and the evening noises cease; the last lamp is turned off behind the window sheets. Come, we shall walk together in this night, the gloomy, while all other souls rest and the streets glisten […]
The beduin pulls his tentpole out of the sand and sharpens his sword; then he travels through the desert under the night stars’ glow. He’s bored by the whispers of palm trees, of the homely dishes the sight – but […]
A crooked fence which wavers; a glow of sun in green windows; some worn-out clothes hung out to dry; a soot-covered wall; a tree that bows – On the stairs a girl, a beauty from the streets, in skirt and […]
It darkens in the alley now, the evening birds they flit along the tiles and touch with a smile my sweater’s sleeve Her there, the little dark one, whose laughter now we hear, now she comes towards us! Look how […]
Here in this silent alley, with the shine of many windows, where behind tiles and blackened roofs the night sky’s violet glows – Here, when the day is past I wander in the hours of dusk, knows all again and […]