revelation in Oberammergau

December 29, 2003  (I was 59) 

   revelation in Oberammergau

Non-Germans in the street

create spaces as they walk.

Women shop the windows,

men don’t know what to do;

they blow their noses and wait.

What does it mean?

To what does it allude?

Kofel was visible an hour ago,

the fog descends tree to tree,

skiers can’t see each other.

The Alps have disappeared,

the mist enters the village.

What does it mean?

To what does it allude?

People visit the theater

where no performance is held;

the look at props and sets

and at where the orchestra sits

during a very famous performance.

What does it mean?

To what does it allude?

Suddenly at thirteen hundred forty meters

the cross appears on Kofel

illuminated through sun-shredded cloud;

visitors who left to visit the Passionate Scene

return to report another passionate scene.

To what does it allude

and what does it mean?