Ulla Hahn
from Herz über Kopf, 1981.
Respectable Sonnet
So why not write a respectable sonnet – St.H.
Come bite me right and bite right in again
and leave off merely nibbling. Here’s where
it’s good, and here, and you know where, yes, there,
and take my measure mouth to mouth. Paint thenconsidering these eyes, rings around
them, let me hide behind beneath my hand,
then spring to yours. Pleasure me in sixes and
in sevens. I scream I know no sound.Stay with me. Wait. I’ll come again,
back to myself, to you, and once more tell
you too, I’ll be your lovely old refrain.Rub rings of sunshine into belly’s shell
so that the warmth remain.
Then keep my eyelids open, my lips as well.
Translated by Oliver Grannis
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