Klaus Høeck: 'Black Sonnets' (1977)

This book comprises 60 sonnets, addressed either to Yasir Arafat or Black September. It was written in March 1977 and published by Gyldendal in 1981. Below is the first sonnet. To see the entire collection, go to here:

(The numbers above each poem are the page numbers in the original book.)

Black September, a black mourning band from

Hell fluttered from the top of your standards

along with the national flags of all

these other countries on the day when the

white Olympic flag of fraternisa

tion and innocence was also run up

above Munich stadium. And while vic

tory ceremonies and the anthem

are played on military silver trump

ets you were all busy preparing the 

dark deeds of defeat and desperation.

I think that I understand you when you 

let fly with the star bazooka against

power and iniquitous collusion.