Blue Fire with Musical Harmony.
"Let us seem to speak
Or they will think us dead, revive us.
Nod brightly, Hour.
Rescue us from rescue."
--Laura (Riding) Jackson
Interpenetrating cube-arrays on an invisible trampoline.
"SNOW-BED
Eyes, world-blind, in the fissure of dying: I come,
callous growth in my heart.
I come.
Moon-mirror rock-face. Down.
(Shine spotted with breath. Blood in streaks.
Soul forming clouds, close to the true shape once more.
Ten-finger shadow, clamped.)
Eyes world-blind,
eyes in the fissure of dying,
eyes eyes:
The snow-bed under us both, the snow-bed.
Crystal on crystal,
meshed deep as time, we fall,
we fall and lie there anbd fall.
And fall:
We were. We are.
We are one flesh with the night.
In the passages, passages."
--Hamburger's Celan
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