SMALL REQUEST

For R.

May God give me a hero and
a joyful lover and
for the evenings,
when none of them is there,
at my window,
a songbird.

* * *

TO PEACE

The wind,
the Chinese say,
does not stop to blow
when the trees
want rest.

GUNHILD BOHM (Germany, 1945)
Translation Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley Barkan