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EX. GDR Suite (2014) and Clouds
For Bertolt Brecht
resource texts CT 1990s-2018

Accidents

In the old parlour
with notices on the door

of control,
intrusion

by decree, danger
a constant

at her sewing a mother
in a corner

watches the sins
of the father visit,

drown one, take another
of her children

in the low-wattage
orange glow;
                     come, go

infinite, pure
the silence


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Anti-worlds

White. A last resort
of the damned, a refugee-

any barely edging away:
an interior world; just

privacy in a region
of neglect

and lignite, damp fern,
rock formation.

Freedom, in a zone, caught
at the border, all

love a rebellion; your
very own wall

with dates, a rough name.
Searches are run

during long internal exile,
rubber torch

low by twilight.

                          *

Watch out. History may call
at dawn, break down your door

hoping you are at home, ready

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Interior: Late Afternoon

The browner wardrobe in the mirror
is guarding an oboe, the veneer
a cracking plastic; the grey
patina of the linoleum
has felt many heels, and the glow
by a table lamp is a dull orange.

Nobody is sitting in judgement
in the interior, even though
another half hour has passed,
and it is known

in every quarter
that time cannot be recovered,
or returned an hour later

to row back over the lake
under a radiant harvest moon!

==============================


In The Park

Comparing likes and dislikes,
they sat on a park bench

throwing stones at the ducks
fitfully.

A dog tried.
Pigeon guns detonated

randomly,
ever victory.

An olive-green attendant
ordered in the dusk,

a blanket
dark gesture, from beyond

the outer railings, early

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Doorway 3

The bayoneted grandfather clock
is leaning toward the tomb
of an underground mausoleum,

in a bordered parchment print
which has taken the warmer sun
of another century,
lingered in the carefree afternoon,
become rather fly-blown
next to a wooden toy.

More than a life of parchment...

There are clouds in the doorway
and, on the floor, crinkled newspaper,
a yellow page in a grounded kite.

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Museum der bildende Kunste

Mirror examines corridor mirror
that swam with a changing terror.

A roaming dog tried
something there and died

eating an exhibit

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The Treck
(after Huchel)


Howls and screams
from wood and field

Charcoal addition
yet more subtraction

of the tethered
a smoky moon

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Aligned Sunday 3

News that is barely rarely news
and therefore, never any news.
Uniquely corroding concrete.
Fractured block utopian steel.
There are no chickens from Kiev
in a vacancy to an aligned week.
On the grand Allee to the anger
of couples, a rusty accordion.

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Wet Praesidium

The guardians of the air jet overhead,
diamond aces over the ill-trained.
She eyed a barrister for the tin generals

playing at periodic saluting at cars
a robust study in chrome, and a cage.
At the long parade, nervy, state-ordained

the praesidium of a darker sky
ponders over a still unreported
murder in a stained underground car park

after the discreet filing of a page.
Gazing at the roof; joined the recent dead.
Water began to enter as it rained.

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Long Day 2

Rain beats at the window,
and wind stirs a battered garden:
every grief is in the wind,
and all monotony in the rain.

A low fire in the grate
is smouldering green timber.

                                              Saxony
                 
Haiku 

On mahogany
your thin scarf and gloves. Ready
to jolt in a van

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Coda: Double Agent
for Wolfgang

Lost forever
in Thuringia.

His wife peasant
Stalinist heard

crew-cut fleshy
bad sleep-talk

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Curfew The Baltic


Cold at a step gable
of no obvious age, lacking
a gallant heraldry

she weaves in a low attic
without a radiator, ignoring
the one oil painting

on a damaged coast,
the grey, eternal pressure
and hauling of the tide.

At her long examined pattern
there is no avoiding rain
at a tumbled grave, drift 

cloud building over the sea
(the sun a distant fever)
as the intent soldiers march

through the penumbra of her attic.

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Mecklenburg Bucht

In Mecklenburg, alone with the dunes
the distance like a line of eternity
run through eastern Pomerania

waiting for history to change, a wind
in the gusting sand; alone
with the dunes, out in Mecklenburg

I see you signal on the grey horizon:
another distant age has begun
and it is not ours

yet we continue to intrude
on a history that is not ours,
the leaves are golden in eerie sun

so early in the afternoon,
the winter riding school is over
and the broken, tone dressage

abandoned to limping wolves
in from the coast: today, a windy
flash of water in the sound

     empty of you, Rita, signalling...

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Mecklenburg Bucht 2

               An octagonal
balcony has sand in decking

of warped wood, with canvas
shrouding peeling furniture
the children never to return:

today, a windy flash of water
and a bell will not stop tolling

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Night City 

A birth in the tombs,
and the trap door open
the night is a lean cat
hung out to dry,

the moon river ferry
a run of dreams, dawn
a trace of rare light
on brooding brick

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     In Spring '45

     She wanted a world with a stair
     leading who knows where,
     a borrowed balalaika
     for telling them who you are

Trying to bend iron with an unkempt look
after running her fingers through her hair
she would enter a gutted labyrinth
with her hands above her head, a soldier
eyeing her dirty summer blouse, open.

The days were apparently endless, lost
eating off the palm of an empty hand.

They gathered round a Biedermeier table
under the tassels of a ginger shade
an hour before it was trashed for a song,
dared not mutter a prayer
before leaving apart, alone
but she did keep a wealth of infinity
and a cube inside herself, white, ideal;

managed to stay at a furtive lengthy kiss
behind the lines, keep to an anecdote
like jasmine raving in August
to survive the spring rapes of '45,
the red fever.

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The Penumbra

Mist clings to their metal.
They tramp the future

                   *

the worst being, an idea
of perpetual suffering,
of world without end

of exhaustion without end,
a rat combing the hairs of hope
on a rotten treadmill

held together by string and glue
and barely any love for you


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Foundation Notes for Editors

On February 25th 1947, Prussia
was abolished by Allied Control
Council Law No. 46 in Berlin

On October 7th 1949, the GDR
was founded in the Soviet Zone

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Other Reasons Why

Pivotal events:
Verdun, then a sealed Lenin;
Prussian Generals

who failed to mutiny
after Stalingrad; Manstein

East Elbia, not Bavaria

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In Silesia
Spring 1945
 

Did the taut Baron
in final moments

watching his servant
girls in rape, the Red

Army at the door
and on the pile floor

leaving blood to dull
before a carting

off of works of art
in a liberation

think of mad Lenin,
paid by Germany

and a reaping
of the whirlwind?

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