A Collection of Poems

Ah, sunflower, withered flower, offspring of the empire, I was away a long time and now you are drooping.

Oh heather, oh blossom, such a bleak, bleak autumn.

The door ajar, I stood at point of day, Tiptoe for you and with awakened eyes. The sun's gold slipper trod the gravelled way,

what’s the use of poetry I ask you – what does poetry reconcile our divorced parents

How could I reach back that far, how could I become one with the old churchyard in Rongu, daydreaming here in these Bitterroot woods, blue e...

My native land they buried you  Beneath an ebon cover,  And blooms of blood on wounded soil  Were all they could discover. 

Bursting full is the moon, its weight bends the trees. The waters desire to be turned  to wine, they are so restless.

When I threw you out. Finally.

To you, who has fulfilled all my beautiful wishes, I breathe slowly, because it doesn't feel real this air around us, warmly touching yo...

Ah, earthly life burns in myriad splendours Not even death’s dark hazard can destroy. I yield, a willing prisoner, to joy; I never sorted wi...

This tiny watch will soon have measured its century. An heirloom of Father's sister Adelheid.

Cold stone flowers in her hair eyes closed she listens

We saw those berries, over-ripe and glowing, in weak and tepid light of the October sun persisting red as blood, in right full-growing, w...

When I was small, a sound rang in my breast.

A gust roused the waves, leaves blew into the water, the waves were ash-gray, the sky tin-gray, ash-gray the autumn.

Right now, right now I would like to change into something different. Can I? I don’t know. I listen to the angry blizzard, a train rattles...

THIS OLD HAMMER IT SHINES LIKE SILVER IT HAS NO MORE WEIGHT - THE OLD SILVER HAMMER FLEW AWAY FROM THE HANDS OF THE BLACKSMITH AND IS CLI...

Silence is always here and everywhere; sometimes we simply hear it more clearly:

White paper and time: one I am filling, the other fills itself.

God has left us — I felt it clearly digging the earth around a rhubarb plant.