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“Spiritual Dusk” by Georg Trakl 🇦🇹 (3 Feb 18873 Nov 1914)
Translated from the German by Jim Doss & Werner Schmitt
Silently a dark deer encounters at the edge
Of the forest;
At the hill the evening wind ends quietly,
The blackbird’s lament grows mute
And the soft flutes of autumn
Silence in the reeds.
On a black cloud
Drunk with poppy you travel
The nocturnal pond,
The starry sky.
Always the sister’s moony voice sounds
Through the spiritual night.