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a Glass Floor Underfoot - 11. the soft pious earth

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Der Abend

für Golo Gangi [alias Erwin Loewenson]

 

3.

Der Flüchtige wirft sein Haupt

Vom Überw achen matt

Vorn-stüvzend ins Gewölk.

Wir folgten seinem Sturz,

Bis der verlangende Blick

Würzeln im Abgrund schlug;

Bis unsre dumpfe Stirn

Den frommen Boden tief

Leise erschütternd traf. [i]

 

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The Evening Light

for Golo Gangi [aka Erwin Loewenson]

 

3.

Stumbling forward, the outcast

Casts his head into the thunderheads

From overwhelming weakness.

We followed his descent,

Until the longing glance struck

Roots formed in the abyss;

Until our dull foreheads

Hit the soft pious earth

With tremulous shaking.

 

 

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Woman in the night (1919)

 

 

 

 

 


[i] Der Abend (“The Evening Light”)

Die Aktion, Vol. 1, No. 29, September 4th, 1911, p. 912-914

 

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4 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

Why am I hearing Schoenberg (or maybe Berg) playing in my head as I read this?

A lovely idea. I keep thinking the key to unlocking the significance of this poem lies in a sensual interpretation; a portrait of a love moment, so to speak 

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