Retrospective

 

Poetry       Prose       Letters

Georg Trakl

 

Sleep

Damn your dark poisons,
White sleep!
This most strange garden
Of dusking trees
Filled with snakes, moths,
Spiders, bats.
Stranger! Your doomed shadow
In the sunset,
A sinister corsair
In the salty sea of misery.
White birds flutter up on the edge of night
Over toppling cities
Of steel.

 

© Jim Doss & Werner Schmitt

 

             

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