High above the lake a bomber flies.
From the rowing boats
Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance
They appear like young starlings, their beaks
Wide open for food.


"This Summer's Sky" [Der Himmel dieses Sommers], (1953), trans. Michael Hamburger in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 444 - Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)

Bertolt Brecht Quotes

High above the lake a bomber flies. From the rowing boats Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance They appear like young starlings,...

High above the lake a bomber flies. From the rowing boats Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance They appear like young starlings,...

High above the lake a bomber flies. From the rowing boats Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance They appear like young starlings,...

High above the lake a bomber flies. From the rowing boats Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance They appear like young starlings,...