{"id":475,"date":"2021-12-20T17:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T16:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/krisenszenarien\/?page_id=475"},"modified":"2021-12-23T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T10:11:43","slug":"monika-herceg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/krisenszenarien\/uebersetzungen\/monika-herceg\/","title":{"rendered":"Monika Herceg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THE TIME BEFORE LANGUAGE<\/strong> (selection)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROPOSITION CONCERNING NEST<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morning swaddles our breath with mist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and goes down the electric river,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

demanding that we warm his trampled fingers,                     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

lend him the tree\u2019s grace or day\u2019s roundness            <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And out back behind the forest of infallible oak grows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and loud moss within which north reflects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out back bold foxes\u2019 offspring wait for darkness to open its eyes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for unfinished sentences to ambush us and form a circle of us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For there is always something grows behind your back preparing silence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

always someone somewhere turning painlessly in sleep<\/p>\n\n\n\n

on his own wings and having forgotten he can fly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

someone somewhere dying notwithstanding that he lived<\/p>\n\n\n\n

like a chair unused that had been ripped out from its beech heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For there is always someone multiplying silence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

someone filling days with waiting, and                     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

who suddenly, like an oblivious butterfly,    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

full speed gets right up face first in glass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and wrecking a galaxy with a glance decides to love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROPOSITION CONCERNING THE ATTEMPT TO IMPOSE UPON YOU LIGHT’S SHAPE<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To whom I shall give recognition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we only held insomnia in common,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

not lessening each other beside each other<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and what now if your hand too quickly disappears through mine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all the same to us, we sort the trash,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we spoil the full fruit as it bursts with ripeness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we give it, calm as we\u2019ve made it, to others, to learn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from them about the bees that came before them<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we eavesdrop sparrows, allow parks settle our lungs,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we love in man his childhood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embracing trees our arms become their rings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and none of the destruction arrived in line with the routine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

according to which we gathered embracings from the bed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

like wood for kindling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind us all remaining is that light<\/p>\n\n\n\n

about which you and I have never spoken:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I watched your grief the way I\u2019ve watched my children<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and bandaged its wrists<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All remaining is the learned resolve<\/p>\n\n\n\n

upon the face I show to human beings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and I pretend that I can speak everything that must be said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROPOSITION CONCERNING ENCOUNTER<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those people that we were before<\/p>\n\n\n\n

someone else came in collisioning our heads<\/p>\n\n\n\n

before we shook up universe and universe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and cast across the table panicked planets<\/p>\n\n\n\n

which we\u2019ve been living on as all already do,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

believing there be easier burdens tomorrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

which time slows through; which time speeds through,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

believing there be someone in us surely<\/p>\n\n\n\n

saying something in time sufficiently loud<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to rouse us from slumber earth to space<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of everything there is that can possibly happen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to those that are sufficiently incautious<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were growing old in each our own<\/p>\n\n\n\n

small situation buried in appointments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

situations that in fact were vast<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that honestly conversed kilometers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but we\u2019d not wanted much to know at all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

about the surfaces of continents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a one pain drowned another out,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we have wanted to escape the closeness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

which would cast us out from what is real<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So docile and so timid we<\/p>\n\n\n\n

would have no use for one more world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

which we aren\u2019t ready for<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00dcbersetzt von Robert Isaf<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original: Monika Herceg: „Vrijeme prije jezika“. Zapre\u0161i\u0107: Fraktura 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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