1
Sad trucks and
improbable restaurants.
O autumn leaves that I love
and the wind
through Slovenian rooms.
2
Thanks, but leave us.
We have already been to the caves
of the rat catchers.
3
Oder, my river, explainable
in terms of sources and tributaries,
my morning profit, my mainspring,
my sand-clock over the provinces.
4
Mills are what I miss here.
The water is sluggish,
the wind comes and goes.
Time for rolling mills,
clay pits maybe
und Scheunenbrand,
Hüte für
Kossäten.
5
Surinam und die Raupen.
Erinnere dich, Merian
Maria Sibylla,
ich war das rechte
gebogene Nelkenblatt.
and barn burnings,
hats for
crofters.
5
Surinam and caterpillars.
Remember, my Merian guide
Maria Sibylla,
I was the clove leaf,
the crimped one on the right.