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Friday 9 January 2015

Shadows Roses Shadows - Ingeborg Bachmann

Under a strange sky
shadows roses
shadows
in a strange land
between roses and shadows
in a strange water
my shadow

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926 - 1972) Austria
Translated by Isaac Pereira
Source: Poets of the World

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