I was born next to a hole (2024)

into the land

next to Hole

I was thrown

from a body

and it wasn’t the time to question

if you wanted children to land in this world

Hole hollowed out

layers devoid, sealed

pressed burnt

(on the right toe still a scar) 

sold & forgotten. 

Hole, then perhaps loses itself 

in continuous loops 

like wind in wheels 

or loses

when Hole recognized me

ripped open breaking

edges rising curves

till the horizon

there was

soil

there was

earth 

I couldn’t burry this hope

inside me.

Realising,

I could have fallen

Realising, 

into Hole, next to which I was born

Realising, 

Danger to life: Mining area 

Realising 

black and white laundry 

Realising

peaceful revolution, round tables

Realising

job losses and Treuhand 

Realising 

all those years in between 

before the years that are ahead 

begin.

I take what I found,

memories, I take 

hands

I climb into Hole

but do not land 

not on electricity prices 

not on necessities

conveyor belts ratter in early spring

Hole welcomes me 

in folded times

Hole wants to show me 

the machines and the depth

It’s no longer how it’s been

I was born next to Hole

no one had told me 

Structural Rupture (2024)

what remains

what then will be

they wrote their own chronicles

they pulled them out of the shredder

what remains 

what then will

a village searches its population 

the water for the lake

rises from the ground

and acidifies

what remains 

what then

when the forgotten hole disappears

not in ten years, but today 

when the robinias raise their voices 

when it changes as promised

it took a few days to remove the earth under the dorf,

the dorf;
Hartmannsdorf, Katternaunsdorf, Bergisdorf, Naundorf, Benndorf, Wernsdorf, Zützschdorf, Körbisdorf, Lützkendorf, Petzkendorf, Berndorf, Zöllsdorf, Rusendorf, Ruppersdorf, Kleinhermsdorf, Droßdorf, Breunsdorf, Heuersdorf, Großhermsdorf, Meuschendor,

Treppendorf and Bösdorf

unless 

fossils were found

what remains 

what