Katharina Schultens
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Essentially this board exists without strict boundaries, yet
inconsequential rivulets escape through unseen rifts;
as if its edges had not been well sealed; its sides: all split;
where a fluid forms through seepage; an open possibility
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Is there still some landscape we may flatten out?
Do things endlessly progress towards some distant singularity?
bit by bit stripped back towards the radioactive core?
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The idea is to cover up what may be profitable, to cloak;
resulting in a slow and heavy smog that smooches
close around the prize. Thus, we have these pools;
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Your scanning of my substance gives me sight, though I cannot see you.
Your body as I build it remains unresolved. I own you only
when you stay in view. Move outside the field of vision to take yourself back.
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The second of my dancing bears would run half-marathons.
Like Laokoon, he had his life wrapped up in bonds
yet twitched to lift his paws, testing each in turn,
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Katharina Schultens (born 1980 in Kirchen, Germany) published three collections of poetry. For her first collection, Aufbrüche (2004) she won the 2005 Martha Saalfeld promotion prize, with the jury praising her for developing “impressively worked poems where ideas meet reined-in impressionistic power in great lightness and certainty of form”. Other awards include the 2007 Georg K. Glaser promotion prize and the promotion prize for the Art Prize of the State of Rhineland Palatinate in 2009. In 2011, her second collection gierstabil was published, followed by gorgos portfolio in 2014.)
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Hidden Liquidity
Essentially this board exists without strict boundaries, yet
inconsequential rivulets escape through unseen rifts;
as if its edges had not been well sealed; its sides: all split;
where a fluid forms through seepage; an open possibility
of unintended self-accumulation, let out
as loneliness: reveals its oily presence drop by drop.
There must be a point where a single drop is destined
to become full fluid. Is this new liquidity a trade-off
with the fractional factor triggering the change? something
as small as a full-stop to hold us hovering, in limbo,
suggesting I desire some thing. I must take: this one glimpse
at my boots, bend, shiver, collapse; the eye must, for us,
stroke the supple suede on which in hindsight we may ascertain
desires. Although the price stays hid throughout the process.
To know cost stunts excitement in the game. Still you play
too. You dish out from this board indiscriminately, indifferently;
(while I crouch, crooked, underneath - posting up your magic rabbit skins)
neither can you tell its length, breadth, depth. All that gets sorted later.
Later, every body counts. The nature of the coins? irrelevant. Some one must pay.
Translated by J.O. Morgan
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