Seeing
Blue, Blue got up, got up and fell.
Sharp, Thin whistled and shoved, but didn’t get through.
From every corner came a humming.
FatBrown got stuck—it seemed for all eternity.
-------------------------------It seemed. It seemed.
You must open your arms wider.
-------------------------------Wider. Wilder.
And you must cover your face with red cloth.
And maybe it hasn’t shifted yet al all; it’s just that you’ve shifted.
White leap after white leap.
And after this white leap. In every white leap a white leap.
But that’s not good at all, that you don’t see the gloom; in the gloom is
-----------where it is.
That’s where everything begins. ………………………….
With a………………………………Crash………………..
Blue, Blue got up, got up and fell.
From every corner came a humming.
FatBrown got stuck—it seemed for all eternity.
-------------------------------It seemed. It seemed.
You must open your arms wider.
-------------------------------Wider. Wilder.
And you must cover your face with red cloth.
And maybe it hasn’t shifted yet al all; it’s just that you’ve shifted.
White leap after white leap.
And after this white leap. In every white leap a white leap.
But that’s not good at all, that you don’t see the gloom; in the gloom is
-----------where it is.
That’s where everything begins. ………………………….
With a………………………………Crash………………..
(from Klänge, 1912).
-Translated by Mary Ann Caws
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