The Imagined World

Die Verschmelzung sprachlicher Relikte eines Rituals mit den Fragmenten von Jans Klanglandschaften


“It‘s the first snow”, she said
And she poured a liquid
Into my throat
In the center of the circle
A bird prayed to the nurturer:
“Bring to us the child of winter”

I am waiting for the new beginning
The return of the wanderer
I breathed her words onto the water
And she appeared
whispering an answer

“Bring to us the child of winter”
(“Sala mãstas sala laiчu hristi salas”)
“Bring to us the child of winter”
(I breathed her words onto the water
And she appeared)
“Bring to us the child of winter”
(She bowed her head whispering an answer)
“Bring to us the child of winter”
(Drumming with her fingertips
And humming in tongues)

She bowed her head whispering an answer

Her words like the wind
Raised a creature of snow

(geschrieben 2019)