Thursday, October 20, 2005

A spark...


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Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual German/English Edition
By Paul Celan, Michael Hamburger
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: Small Flame

Love lies on my heart. Like a sheaf of love letters. Or the eclipsed body of my lover. Hours endlessly relentless. Do I dwell in the silence of the soul? Do I even believe we have a soul? A spark of being, that's all there is. A blazing little spark forging through life. And it lies on my breast tonight, love in my heart, beating, expanding, contracting. The pulse. Love is the pulse. My spark is dim tonight, faint.

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