the garden of delight

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for some
it is stone
bare smooth 
as a buttock 
rounding
into the crevasse
of the world

for some
it is extravagant
water mouths wide 
washing together 
forever for some 
it is fire
for some air

and for some
certain only of the syllables 
it is the element they
search their lives for

eden

for them 
it is a test

© Paul Celan