Fjordscene Poetry

it is to you,I speak –! what aredreaming animalsand great joycompared with the noiseof raging stomachsand pained sexes –? idiocy –! notdo my stomach rage anymore,and always have I loved,and not can I still the noise – but it isto […]

like the feet of newborn  childrenyour eyes are during longing –go –!go –!along the strangely speaking rivers,which give birth to the forestsand fill them with answers –o, the forests,cowering the riverslike listening melancholy snakes –,and drag the sky down over […]

what are you screaming for –you goddamn fool,you limp belly-filler –what in hell are you screaming for –can’t you help yourself,you pale bowlegged loser –,then I will of course jumpout between the sharksand drag you back on shore –you asshole […]

elisabet’s soulhad legs like the darkest notesin a violincelwith dancing feet – but her fatherwith the blonde beard,died,and elisabet always cried – her tears were largeand transparent like globesof champagne –and these tears luredthe men with the three-quarter souls – […]

dying the little one lay –a thin cry –minutes like millions of detestable flies –burning anxiety hammers against small temples –cynically slow you wentthrough the night –you painted fear-crosses –,hour after hour –small eyes – small fingerssurrendered bit by bitto the flies […]

once you were scared –now you sit with the freedom –your heart weighs nothing –,o you are free –– – –always you hold up your smoky smilein front of your eyes,before you look at the others,who don’t know the fearof mute […]

the hundred mendig out stonesfor eleven hours –,and fill great shipsand foreign stock-holders,for whom they don’t give a shit –(eleven hours – ) and the hundred menpour champagneinto souls,which the city of longingought to fear,and couldn’t filltwo years ago – […]

your bitternessis a lie –your altruismlooking after wounds .you were born –! you will not take charity –what do you have to give –?what do you have –,which you weren’t given –?see your holy dutytowards yourself, which you’ve been given […]

you, who cowed your mouths –,forced your eyes outwards –,I toolove you,who first turned the whipagainst own dreamsand said: lay down!and then stretched the swordoverthe small and fallentowards the large and cheeky –,forgetting own tearsfor others’ suffering –I love you – […]

I have a soul –for over a yearI have twisted and turned it,writhed it and smoothed it – the more I scrubbed,the cleaner it became –the more I stabbed,the more it hurt –and I noticed thiswith worry and seriousness – […]

weak and good you are –I will slit your throatin a short and light cut –,and forget you –but it doesn’t help my beloved –you gave her everything,what you had –I gave her more –I gave her something great,which I […]

you my little girl –,you are the mute country itself –,where the roads, which have no name,lead rows of beaststhrough days upwardswith covered burdens to the castle – and way way downa giant giant mile-wide plainwith prides of munching gloss-hooved […]

when you can’tlove my baby,nothing matters – it doesn’t matter,that you never sleep –,that your features drilllike roots, which never descends –,that you love me – day and nightday and nightmy baby countsthe fragments of my heart,re-orders them –when my […]

I’m just swayinghere in the grasswhich swayssings of bitehere in the dark yellow flowershere together with my little drumI hate thin voicesridiculously high voicesI have a crumbling mumble myselfI’m just sayingthat you should stay herestay here –you lose somethingif you […]

I came to the city,where all people live –and I saw with great pain,that everybody was hexagonal,dodecagonal or octagonal –those, whom I didn’t know,laughed and said, I was an egg –and those, who loved me,turned grey and lamented,for one single […]

where can I hidewhere can I hide,o tonight they will all comethey will all come from all over the world –o does there not exista single hiding placejust a single hiding placefor metonight –I am so scaredI shall die of […]

priestess –!I pay tribute to you – finished your destiny rests –surewith giant bolts all the way through the earth –,unshakeable, like that, which has happened –,sure as the fall –one desireis your life – you know the great goal –among […]

she waits –nothing is too great –bent over she sits –the brow stares –the night strings long longhumming velvet-bands through her open pupils –quietly the nostrils gropechoosing from the abundance –nothing is too great –patiently upwards-turned palms awaitsthe first drop –

in despairI hurt the shrine,which you with temples and everythinghad bound with the thread of lovebeneath my heart,and it fell –among low remainsI saw you walkforever – long I wentcarrying my mad laughteramong the ruins –many came –none could build […]

so quietso quiet –don’t speak –! very very carefullyI must tread,if I am to find anything –,and alone I must go,if I am to find anything – yet I have found nothing –I have neitherfound my houseor my belovedor my […]