After this Flood
(English translation of 'Nach dieser Sintflut' by Ingeborg Bachmann)
After this Flood
I want the dove
and only the dove
to be saved once again.
I'd drown in this sea!
If it didn’t fly off,
if it didn’t bring back,
at the last moment, the leaf.
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