Sprachgitter
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Eine Übersetzung des Gedichts Sprachgitter von Paul Celan – entstanden auf dem Sommerberg –
Sprachgitter
Wide eyes between bars.
Shimmering lids
turn upwards,
freeing a glance.
Iris, swimming, dreamless and cloudy:
the sky, heart-grey, must be near.
Crooked, in the iron nozzle,
the smouldering ember.
Through light sense
you divine the soul.
(Were I like you. Were you like me.
Did we not stand
under a Passat?
We are strangers.)
The tiles. On which,
close together, those two
heart-grey puddles:
two
mouths full of silence.
Translation Fellstrom – Steinbrenner 21.05.2008
Link zu einer Übersetzung von Michael Hamburger
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