Für LL.
Out-gone the flames, remain the embers of
your eyes, the far-and-fiery suns within.
A sting (remembrance): summer rays in wine,
the shadow of your smile and voice (they went
with you when morning came) returning clad
in gentle guise opaque to mist of mind.
December doused your hair, washed out the blaze
that lit the pyre under my solemn spring,
that held the canvas, painted hopes of night,
that bore as halo sky and Scorpius.
your eyes, the far-and-fiery suns within.
A sting (remembrance): summer rays in wine,
the shadow of your smile and voice (they went
with you when morning came) returning clad
in gentle guise opaque to mist of mind.
December doused your hair, washed out the blaze
that lit the pyre under my solemn spring,
that held the canvas, painted hopes of night,
that bore as halo sky and Scorpius.
(Die flammen ausgelöscht, die glut verbleibt | von deinen augen, sonnenfeuer fern. | Ein stich (erinnern): sommerstrahl im wein, | dein stimmen-, lächelns-schatten (er verging | mit dir, als morgen kam) und kam zurück | in sanftem undurchdringlichem gewand. | Dezember goss dein haar, verwusch den brand, | der meinen feste-frühling angefacht, | der hoffnung auf die leinwand malte, nacht, | der nimbus trug: den himmel, Scorpio.)