from “Mister Today”

A Desolate One
Enough Hiding
Gospel According to Plotinus
A Comparative One
Cantata after Plotinus
Self-inflicted Modesty
Manifesto of Love
There is No Silence
Plotinus kiss
Raven
Hölderlin’s Eagles
Spirit Flame
Firewater
Cosmopolitan Ode
A Nautical One
A Radio One
A Bird
Happy Carpet
Press Conference
Shadow
Monday’s Overture
A Famous Person’s Translation
Mister Today, a Doctor from Ossetia
The Last One to Go
Toy Blocks
Delicious Whiteness of Corn

Eat me up, the spirit flame!
(Mister Today was in his element.)
The Tennessee River devoured my veins
and the empire of moonlight came to reign.
Bite the silver thread
on which my soul hangs
like a grape!
Open up, you black wells!
The spirit flame is scorching my ears,
says Mister Today.
You’ve woken up?
I slept and groaned in my dreams,
and my stomach went on rising.
Mister Today ponders:
Swallow my groaning!
Also:
spirit fire is enough.