August Stramm Poems
- 1. Frost Fire
Toes deaden.
Breath smelts to lead.
Hot needles dance in fingers.
Backs turn to snails.Ears hum coffee.
... - 2. Guard-duty
A star frightens the steeple cross
a horse gasps smoke
iron clanks drowsily
mists spread
... - 3. War Grave
Staffs flehen cross arms
Writing zagt pale unknown
Flowers impudent
Dust shyly.
... - 4. Wonder
U Stands! U stands!
And I
And I
I wing
... - 5. Wounds
Earth under the helmet flowers
Falling stars
Grope through space.
Roaring shudders
... - 6. Melancholy
Living desires
Shouldering to stand
Glimpses searching
Dying grows
... - 7. Battlefield
Yielding clod lulls iron off to sleep
bloods clot the patches where they oozed
rusts crumble
fleshes slime
... - 8. Angriff
Tücher
Winken
Flattern
Knattern.
... - 9. Primal Death
Space
Time
Space
Travel
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