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Poem

Thomas Kling

stratum III (beatrice)



this hair is snow-white, this hair
is black, growing again at the root.

we became liquid. eventually we were
liquidated. so we drifted off, bees

saved in dawn’s shimmering honey.
sacrifice, invocation, food for the dead.

how your voice unfolded!, its lowland
luminosity in the blacklight of the sunflower

we flow into, sleepless, honey, the liquefaction
of words: a hunger, deeply felt, for everything.

schicht III (beatrice)

schicht III (beatrice)

dies ist schneeblond, dies ist
das blau, das in den achsein nachwächst.

da wurdn wir flüssig. schließlich ver
flüssigtn wir uns. so sankn hin, gerettete

bienen, wir, im morgnlicht schimmernder honig.
ein götteropfer, anrufung, speise der totn.

wi deine stimme sich öffnete!, tiefebene erhellt
im schwarzlicht der sonnenblume, in was mündn wir

einstrahlungn, ohneschlaf, honig. wort und ver
flüssigungn: di gier ist es, herzgier, nach vielem.
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stratum III (beatrice)



this hair is snow-white, this hair
is black, growing again at the root.

we became liquid. eventually we were
liquidated. so we drifted off, bees

saved in dawn’s shimmering honey.
sacrifice, invocation, food for the dead.

how your voice unfolded!, its lowland
luminosity in the blacklight of the sunflower

we flow into, sleepless, honey, the liquefaction
of words: a hunger, deeply felt, for everything.

stratum III (beatrice)



this hair is snow-white, this hair
is black, growing again at the root.

we became liquid. eventually we were
liquidated. so we drifted off, bees

saved in dawn’s shimmering honey.
sacrifice, invocation, food for the dead.

how your voice unfolded!, its lowland
luminosity in the blacklight of the sunflower

we flow into, sleepless, honey, the liquefaction
of words: a hunger, deeply felt, for everything.
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