Seamus Heaney: „Digging“
Between my finger and my thumb Â
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound Â
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: Â
My father, digging. I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Â
Bends low, comes up twenty years away Â
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills Â
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Â
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
By God, the old man could handle a spade. Â
My grandfather cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner’s bog.
Once I carried him milk in a bottle
Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
To drink it, then fell to right away
Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
Over his shoulder, going down and down
For the good turf. Digging.
The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.
Between my finger and my thumb
Seamus Heaney: „Die Amsel von Glanmore. Gedichte 1965 bis 2006“. Hrsg. von Michael Krüger. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011.
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