Dieter M Gräf

1960 / Ludwigshafen

Idroscalo. Ostia

slit side already yachted
away: mall,

hamburger hovering
above it. Here
bleeds the ketchup.

Still unchallenged
quotation of an alcove with
a blue Madonna,

her barren boner
cactus in front; then

the land
scape's pants lowered
after all, by the dis

solved foot

ball field, behind which
even the Tiber ——
(For Benoît Gréan)

Translated by Andrew Shields
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