Werner Richter
*1929, D
Weil am Rhein
Peasant hamlet!– Town you are, Doorway
to the Stewart-dukedom,
Three-country-band
Fertile and rock-strewn.
Where the ‘Wiese’ and the ‘Kander’
unify into a single one.
…A stream to separate,
a bridge to bind,
no hatred burning,
a bridge to find
a stranger home,
a bridge back to one’s self