Michael Donhauser

1956 / Vaduz

[It was]

It was
it will
and is
and says

says you
and laughs
and goes
and asks

if I …
it's lost
and now
a touch

and still
the hand
says when
and knows

that we
are close
and kin,
and froze

and laughs
and speaks
and shows
the light

Translated by Don Paterson
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