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“Transfiguration” by Georg Trakl 🇦🇹 (3 Feb 1887 – 3 Nov 1914)
Translated from the German by Jim Doss & Werner Schmitt
When evening appears
A blue countenance quietly leaves you.
A small bird sings in the tamarind tree.
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A soft monk
Folds the deceased hands.
A white angel haunts Mary.
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A nocturnal wreath
Of violets, corn and purple grapes
Is the year of the beholder.
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By your feet
The graves of the dead open
When you lay the forehead in the silver hands.
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Silently the autumn moon
Dwells upon your mouth,
Dark song drunk with poppy juice;
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Blue flower,
That quietly sounds in yellowed stones.