#WaltherPetri

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poetry post

one of my classes this semester involves translating a poet from x language to english.  i found Walther Petri, a German poet for children.  i haven't been able to read much of his work yet, but this poem is so hauntingly beautiful.

I shudder even now how everything turns into syllables and prefixes when I write and read, and spine after spine on the shelves into books four letters reduce a life to a single word and eight, no seven speak of a century and fates need even fewer letters just one is all it takes for us to know whether someone frowned or drowned o this brevity of language that just can’t get it