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a Glass Floor Underfoot - 6. white as belfries

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Die Lilien

 

Die Lilien steigen weiß wie Glocken-türme

Ins Feuer-Dunkel tönend wie Kristall:

Oh Schlaf! Und goldnen Samens Düfte-Fall

Erschlaffe uns und schläfre ein die Stürme.

 

In unsern entblößten Herzen bohren die Nächte,

Gequälte wir pressen den Leib der bebenden Wand,

Mit Schluchten dehnet hinunter das flutende Land:

Wolke blutet: wir starren in stürzende Schächte.

 

Die unbetäubten Straßen hallen fort.

Die bösen Schritte, laut, verhallen wirr.

Der Lilien dünne Stäbe sind verdorrt.

Der Morgen sickert ins Zimmer, trüb und irr. [i]

 

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The Lilies

The lilies emerge to rise white as belfries

In fire-darkness, sounding like crystal:

Oh sleep! The golden incense falling still

Tires us and puts down the storm's fight with ease.

 

The night bores deep into our exposed heart,

Tortured, against the wall's belly we stand,

With gorges stretching through the flooded land:

Clouds bleed; eyes locked while rain shafts fall apart.

 

Unanesthetized streets now echo below.

Those evil footfalls resound loud and crazed.

The lilies' stretched stalks are withered and low.

And morning seeps into the room, dull and dazed.

 

 

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Otto Dix Night over the city (1913)

 

 

 

 

 


[i] Die Lilien (“The Lilies”)

Letter to Erwin Loewenson, January 25th, 1912

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