<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478549" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Meeting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Michael Hamburger</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Barn owl<br>daughter of snow,<br>subject to the night wind,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">yet taking root<br>with her talons<br>in the rotten scab of walls,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">beak face<br>with round eyes,<br>heart-rigid mask<br>of feathers a white fire<br>that touches neither time nor space.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Coldly the wind blows<br>against the old homestead,<br>in the yard pale folk,<br>sledges, baggage, lamps covered with snow,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the pots death,<br>in the pitchers poison,<br>the last will nailed to a post.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hidden thing<br>under the rocks' claws,<br>the opening into night,<br>the terror of death<br>thrust into flesh like stinging salt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us go down<br>in the language of angels<br>to the broken bricks of Babel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated by Michael Hamburger</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Peter+Huchel">Peter Huchel</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478549" data-title="Meeting de Peter Huchel" data-description="For Michael Hamburger Barn owl daughter of snow, subject to the night wind, yet taking root with her talons in the rotten scab of walls, beak face with round eyes, heart-rigid mask of feathers a white fire that touches neither time nor space. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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