You pass me
free-range feelings
and stir your tea again.
I crack them open on the table edge
and see something soft
between my fingers.
Your gaze falls
on a broken word.
We share it
and send ripples
through the cups,
hush
ourselves free.
Short bio of the author
Sigune Schnabel was born in 1981. She studied her diploma in literary translation in Düsseldorf, Germany. Various publications have appeared in anthologies and literary journals. For her poetry she won prizes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In September 2017, the collection of poetry Apfeltage regnen was published, followed by Spuren vergessener Zweige in May 2019.
Short bio of the translator
Born in London in 1961, Simon Lèbe spent a large part of his childhood in France and Switzerland. He completed a degree in Fine Art in London in the early 1980s. Self-taught, he has worked professionally in various fields of translation since 1990 and has been living in Wuppertal, Germany since 1994.