{"id":10241,"date":"2019-02-13T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/?post_type=stsp_text&#038;p=10241"},"modified":"2022-06-05T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T13:39:08","slug":"herakles-war-ein-wichtiger-griechischer-held","status":"publish","type":"stsp_text","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/de\/text\/herakles-war-ein-wichtiger-griechischer-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Herakles was an important Greek hero &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Forest Lies (after \u201cMein Wanderlied\u201d by Else Lasker-Sch\u00fcler)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dwarf morning hours wait<\/p>\n<p>Until the midnight mushrooms itself<\/p>\n<p>Around my lips, shutting them<\/p>\n<p>Into a proud line, a moss home<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Torrential rains write the lake\u2019s ways,<\/p>\n<p>Each with its own salt, gaze and loss<\/p>\n<p>Thousand seasons, light\u2019s vices<\/p>\n<p>Shine on me as I undo my voices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I wash them against the waiting stones<\/p>\n<p>Against the fern\u2019s music. Between water and river<\/p>\n<p>Stay my bricks, the pyramid<\/p>\n<p>Of dead Time and its skies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Herakles was an important Greek hero and the elimination of Geryon constituted one of His celebrated Labors: A Cento<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When Geryon was little he loved to sleep but<\/p>\n<p>Even more he loved to wake up.<\/p>\n<p>How new it tasted; the gentlest of violations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You dream in black and white<\/p>\n<p>I dream in fauve and phosphor<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s predictable, the logic of dreams. It\u2019s been<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>January for months in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>He could feel the house of sleepers around him<\/p>\n<p>Like loaves on shelves. I wish you were here<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I could bend a mirror around your face,<\/p>\n<p>Pour you back into you. Every night, the moon<\/p>\n<p>Unpeels itself without affectation. It\u2019s difficult.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Outside the natural world was enjoying<\/p>\n<p>A moment of total strength. A dark slowing<\/p>\n<p>Of time, north light, bastard light,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And everything quiet quiet. With sensitive enough<\/p>\n<p>Instruments, even uprooting a shrub becomes<\/p>\n<p>A seismic event. So much of living is<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About understanding scale. Sunset begins<\/p>\n<p>Early in winter, a bluntness at the edge of the light.<\/p>\n<p>Geryon leaned his hot forehead against<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The filthy windowpane and wept. This <em>is<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Craft, necessary like a roadside deer\u2014a thing<\/p>\n<p>To drive past, to catch the white of, something<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To make a person pause,<\/p>\n<p>Say, <em>look, a deer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\">(sources:<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\"><em>The Autobiography of Red<\/em> by Anne Carson<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\"><em>Calling A Wolf A Wolf<\/em> by Kaveh Akbar<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\"><em>Measures of Expatriation<\/em> by Vahni Capildeo<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\"><em>Human Work<\/em> by Sean Borodale)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genetically Speaking 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Behind our house there was a university campus.<\/p>\n<p>The State University of Marine Life\u2014enrolment so low<\/p>\n<p>it was facing closure soon. The campus was large, green,<\/p>\n<p>and empty. I learned to ride bicycle there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mom, my sister, and I would ride around the ground,<\/p>\n<p>played badminton. The two of us against Mom.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d let us win until we got tired.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then we\u2019d rest<\/p>\n<p>under wisteria vines, and eat \uae40\ubc25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In spring the purple scent of the flowers was so hypnotic<\/p>\n<p>it cost me my appetite.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes wind<\/p>\n<p>would blow petals onto my food.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I would eat them too<\/p>\n<p>because Mum said we were what we ate\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and I<\/p>\n<p>wanted to be pretty and mauve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She called wisteria \ud3ec\ub3c4\uc1a1\uc774\u2014grape flower\u2014because<\/p>\n<p>of the way it looked. For the longest time I thought<\/p>\n<p>when the petals were shed the buds would bloom into<\/p>\n<p>pearls<\/p>\n<p>of<\/p>\n<p>merlot<\/p>\n<p>grape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wisteria was Mom\u2019s favourite flower. She looked<\/p>\n<p>and smelled like it. I wondered if I grew up right<\/p>\n<p>I would have my own bloom and scent. Seemed im-<\/p>\n<p>possible. My genderless body felt un-<\/p>\n<p>flowersome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When spring waned the summer heat dried out the vines<\/p>\n<p>and no fruits ensued.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The petals tasted flimsy and limp<\/p>\n<p>on my tongue. Later in my botany textbook I read about<\/p>\n<p>the actual grape blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all <em>Vitis vinifera<\/em> grapes have hermaphroditic flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Female and male in one, they\u2019re called perfect.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A photo<\/p>\n<p>showed green and spiky sprouts that looked extraterrestrial.<\/p>\n<p>I pushed my nose onto the page.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, no scent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Forest Lies (after \u201cMein Wanderlied\u201d by Else Lasker-Sch\u00fcler) Dwarf morning hours wait Until the midnight mushrooms itself Around my lips, shutting them Into a proud line, a moss home &nbsp; Torrential rains write the lake\u2019s ways, Each with its own salt, gaze and loss Thousand seasons, light\u2019s vices Shine on me as I undo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10021,"template":"","categories":[21,11],"class_list":["post-10241","stsp_text","type-stsp_text","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-10","category-lyrik"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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