Berlin - Friedrichshagen *) A tree bleeding in this Winter night; Glaciers and sand overflowing the road. At the timberyard, resin in the flesh of logs; and here, in the pine, a bleeding face, ashen green. Waters, fairies, and rabbits, stags and fawns playing at dawn, pressing grass for sleep -- concealments, glades, a body loosing serum; in this night, distended by blue; on this earth, strayed in the words of a greedy mind. Anwar Al-Ghassani September 5, 1995 *) The Sound of Poetry (print and voice recording on CD), Poetry.com, 2002