Five Poems
Günter Eich, translated by Michael Hofmann, 23 June 2005
I haven’t tried the water yet, that can wait. But the redecorated station implies future, which makes me mulish.
Corpuscle count and forest ozone, suspicion of the spa doctors. Nature is a form of negation. Better to stick to the ditties in the spa newsletter.
Brothers GrimmNettlebush. The burnt children Wait behind the cellar windows. Their parents have gone out,...