Poems by Paul Celan
sorrow song
... for all that remains of the children, ...
jasper texas 1998
... i am a man's head hunched in the road ...
brothers
... (being a conversation in eight poems between an aged Lucifer and God, though only Lucifer is heard ...
mulberry fields
... they must have been trying to invent some new language they say ...
sisters
... me and you come running high down purdy street one time ...
You Were My Death
... when all fell away from me ...
poem in praise of menstruation
... the universe such a river ...
wishes for sons
... let them think they have accepted ...
slaveships
... ever again can this tongue speak ...
“oh antic God”
... though her wild hair scratches my dreams ...
my dream about time
... is faced with clocks and as she watches ...
This Evening Also
... more fully, since snow fell even on this ...
1994
... you know about the fears the tears ...
Todesfuge
... he calls out more darkly now stroke your strings then as smoke you will rise in the air ...
here rests
... reading a bible aloud through the house ...
