Lecture with Celan
Michael Heller
1997
How many know
the number of creatures is endless?
So many know,
only a gasp in their questions is possible.
All that fullness—
of wounds that won’t scar over.
pain’s grillework
persisting in the memory.
What sets one free
within the sign and blesses the wordflow
without barrier?
Not literature, which is only for those
at home in the…
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