Somewhere the sea must be, it must still be there like the wind and the evening, the path through the evening. Christoph Meckel is the poet of sensual perception, of hearing, smelling, tasting, and at the same time of the precise word, of unillusioned hardness and critical stubbornness. Meckel has made the long poem his most personal form, a blend of narrative and reflection. In the two poems of his latest collection, he returns to the great themes of a poet's life: the time between day and night, the foreign and the familiar, and again and again to the sea, a symbol of departure and infinity. "Two Poems" affirms Christoph Meckel's exceptional status as a poet.