INSOMNIA/I
Then there are those asking about the inheritance:
Terra Nova!
Now, it comes a"d goes all alone;
was mine, will not be mine
all the land a wind can visit.
Terra Nova: The body is a storm of applause
for life,
Terra Nova: Existence is the ransom for
absence,
known is the larva phase of the unknown.
Terra Nova: The pose of a mountain fountain,
Terra Nova: The look of a bee hive,
an assembly of all trees and grass,
the animal world close and far;
my hand longing for the warmth of a palm.
Terra Nova: Terra Incognita.
The New Land: The Unknown (piece of) Land
the clearest bundle
I can remember:
The beginning hidden inside the end and a gift.
As an heir (I):
I will make a book out of ashes
and a palace out of all the cells sound
passes through.
Translated by Sehnoz Tohir
SACE
My dreams! you used to say
my dreams shouldn't frighten you
but you should also be aware of the world.
As if!
I'd said it all
but all the words had erased themselves.
As if!
I'd seen it all, even the most arcane revelations
but they had been shrouded in darkness.
As if!
I'd heard it all, even the sounds beyond
sound,
but had forgotten all the images.
As if!
I'd walked all the roads in vain
realizing that none of them leads anywhere.
As if!
Two armies had attacked each other
and inside of my body only a scream remains.
As if!
I'd filled a jug with water and taken a
handful of soil
from the shadow of the sea and the earth.
O then I became a wind that had once blown
a flood that had overflown
a rain that had rained down.
My dreams! you used to say
my dreams shouldn't frighten you:
Death never kills anyone!
Translated by Simon Pettet ond Ulker lnce