Blackbirdan online journal of literature and the artsSpring 2016  Vol. 15 No. 1
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translation from the German by Eric Torgersen

Sewing Time

She sews
stitch by stitch
and goes away
from the window
for the time being
it’s midnight in her head
which is open in the back
and needs light
for thinking

The film is stuck
she sews
and sews
the sentence reads:
Bodies without the cerebrum
are monsters
clocks
stopped in the middle
when you say it
it’s already
something else

Most significant are still
these stitches
with them
she reaches me
once blood came
everything
went crazy  


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