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      February 27, 2013Two PoemsKuno Raeber

      NURSING

      Without the crown and without
      the veil and without the black
      damask gown.
      Without the chemise.
      The brimming breast.
      The nipples
      between the lips.

      __________

      VOID

      In the void a word
      like a white
      tomb in the sand
      like a bird on a
      stone without legend.

      Translated from the German by Stuart Friebert with permission of Carl Hanser Verlag/Munich

      from #37 - Summer 2012

      Kuno Raeber (1922–1992), the Swiss writer of poetry, prose, fiction, and criticism, much acclaimed in Europe, is virtually unknown in English. He replaced Stuart Friebert at Oberlin in the ’60s, when Friebert was on sabbatical.

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