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Biography
Evelyn Holloway was born in Vienna in 1955. She left Austria for Oxford
in 1972 to study English. In the '70s she also lived in Beirut, Athens
and Jerusalem. Her poetry and prose has appeared in the Oxford Poetry
Review, Freibord, Podium, Wespennest and
Literarität, as well as in the anthologies When the
Drink Shop Shuts (Oxford, 1985) and Wie es uns gefällt
(Berlin, 1981). Her play Die Puppe was performed in Vienna in
1995. She also writes film scripts, translates literature and is part
of the Erstes Wiener Lesetheater, with whom she has produced
readings of Beckett, Ionesco, Max Frisch and Thomas Bernhard. She has
been a member of Labyrinth since 1998.
Poem
- Beyond the window (Atlantic dream)
you.
you are always there
watching outside my window
waiting to paint my life with moods.
Basking in the sun
surrounding me by moonlight with your silken promises
or more often
chastising me with
your angry song
Today it is your serenity
and I am watching you,
home of the myriad schools,
keeper of time,
end of a million rainbows
grinder of rock
temptress and destroyer of man.
Oh, you’ll get me soon enough and grind my bones to dust.
I am but temporal, but today I am the seagull soaring high
above
watching for the wave
that carries the hopes of the silver surfer
Everywhere,
over the horizons
to a truth that always lies
a life beyond the window
and forever just
an impossible dream
away
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