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Waking

In America, when the light rises and cups the pearl of the mountain, like Eve slowly raising her white face to the fruit tree,

I lie out on the veranda and watch the long skies

open like fingers from their dark palms.

Feeling beneath me the ripe land that tumbles root-first into the gorge,

I throw a petal into the tremendous distance and count the seconds of the fall.

It’s no matter to be another drop of dust in the pit where so many dead leaves circle the earth in their old religions,

having nothing more to do with flesh or bone, man or woman. The sun rises with complete knowing

of the day, folding the darkness into the gorge with the aim of an eye. Meanwhile,

the people wake. A mother bathes her child, the fisherman brings the sweet water to his mouth,

the gardener plucks the hopeless deadhead from the stem, and so many things come to pass.

Leanne O’Sullivan

Erwachen In Amerika liege ich draußen auf der Veranda, als die Morgenröte beginnt und die Spitzen der Berge vergoldet, so wie Eva ganz langsam ihr weißes Gesicht hebt und auf den Baum der Früchte hin schaut, und ich beobachte die langen Strahlen des Lichts, wie sie die Berge öffnen, wie Finger aus dunklen Handflächen.

Unter mir spüre ich das fruchtbare Land, das – Wurzeln zuerst – in die Schlucht taumelt.

Ich werfe ein Blütenblatt in die enorme Distanz und zähle die Sekunden seines Falls.

Es spielt keine Rolle, ein weiterer Tropfen Staub zu sein in der Grube, wo doch so viele tote Blätter die Erde umkreisen in ihren alten

Religionen , nichts mehr zu tun zu haben mit Fleisch oder Knochen, Mann oder Frau. Die Sonne steigt und weiß schon alles vom kommenden Tag, sie faltet die Dunkelheit zusammen in der Schlucht für das Auge. Eine Mutter badet ihr Kind, ein Fischer schöpft Süßwasser in seinen Mund,

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der Gärtner pflückt die verblühten Blumen vom Stängel, so viele Dinge kommen und gehen.

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