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Ron Winkler, born in 1973 in Jena, is a freelance writer and translator living in Berlin. While studying German and history, he founded the poetry magazine intendenzen, which he ran for a decade.
Winkler has served as writer-in-residence in Argentina, Italy, Sweden, Ireland and the Ukraine. His poems have been translated into 25 languages, still counting. His most recent poetry collection is Postcards from Territories. In addition to poetry, he writes flash fiction. Winkler is editor of seven poetry anthologies and has translated a number of poetry col- lections from English. Selected poems have been published in England, Ukraine and Mexico.
NIGHTS IN THE ALL-CONQUERING MEDIUM
for Jeffrey McDaniel
when we can’t sleep we count
the emergency vehicles cutting off the ambulances we’re positioned in.
when we can’t sleep we glow as if the dark were light.
when we can’t sleep we count the ones who can’t sleep.
when we can’t sleep we stand up to flesh out and cultivate this state of being
into perhaps hollow-eyed Heideggerism.
when we can’t sleep we monitor
the yawning local police of our yawning bodies by the reading of their yawn-inspiring internal memos and standing orders.
when we can’t sleep we recite the two three four lines of the two three poems that we know.
when we can’t sleep we’re little Paddleship Potemkins.
Translated from German by Jake D. Schneider