Manfred Peter Hein

1931 / Darkehmen

BALHISAR

Script upon script ascribed to the spawn
of motley ragtag night
Cybele
night
I lay with
grimace for nought
to pass away of passing to tell
To me
and whomsoever else
Nothing left
over the Phrygian meteorite crows the cock
downcast dismembered
voice
overstream echo
our return

Script upon script Who writes who reads
to remember the season the light that bears the night
the days our days
the night that bore them
What's to become above us
of the colour the colour
of the planet
Cybele
Moon cat plummeting
sky stone

This my voice My invisibility

On the scale of the rainbow detonating
deaf ears tongue of angels bitter grass

Translation: Nicholas Grindell
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