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“Transfiguration” by Georg Trakl 🇦🇹 (3 Feb 18873 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.
A soft monk
Folds the deceased hands.
A white angel haunts Mary.
A nocturnal wreath
Of violets, corn and purple grapes
Is the year of the beholder.
By your feet
The graves of the dead open
When you lay the forehead in the silver hands.
Silently the autumn moon
Dwells upon your mouth,
Dark song drunk with poppy juice;
Blue flower,
That quietly sounds in yellowed stones.