Noch ein Jubiläumsgast: Jack Hirschman wird nochmals hier sein. Wir freuen uns sehr! Und hier seine Textspende:

 

 

EMERGENCE

 

I came out of it knowing

I had to learn death by heart.

 

You showed me the lines

in my very own brow.

 

I was never very good

at reading by heart.

 

I need to have a score in

my hand because, I see now,

 

it was too much for me

to memorize death

 

with a big, open breath.

I needed to bend and bow.

 

I needed to run my tongue along

the ground of the here and now

 

and taste my son, who’d died

before he could know he’d be

 

delivered in the form of a letter

written in ink invisible to

 

everyone but me, and embrace me

as I lift my eyes and raise

 

my voice and say: I saw you there,

it was impossible not to

 

recognize you. And I embrace you

in return.

 

                           ---Jack Hirschman