Psalm

No-man kneads us again out of Earth and Loam,
no-man spirits our Dust.
No-man.





Praise to you, No-man.
For love of you
we will flower.
Moving
towards you.



A Nothing
we were, we are, we shall
be still, flowering:
the Nothing-, the
No-man’s-rose.



With
our Pistil soul-bright,
our Stamen heaven-torn,
our Corolla red
with the Violet-Word that we sang
over, O over
the thorn.














       Paul Celan




               -I'm afraid I don't know who translated this from the german
















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