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Corona
Aus der Hand frisst der Herbst mir sein Blatt: wir sind Freunde.
Wir schälen die Zeit aus den Nüssen und lehren sie gehn:
die Zeit kehrt zurück in die Schale.
Im Spiegel ist Sonntag,
im Traum wird geschlafen,
der Mund redet wahr.
Mein Aug steigt hinab zum Geschlecht der Geliebten:
wir sehen uns an,
wir sagen uns Dunkles,
wir lieben einander wie Mohn und Gedächtnis,
wir schlafen wie Wein in den Muscheln,
wie das Meer im Blutstrahl des Mondes.
Wir stehen umschlungen im Fenster, sie sehen uns zu von der Straße:
es ist Zeit, dass man weiß!
Es ist Zeit, dass der Stein sich zu blühen bequemt,
dass der Unrast ein Herz schlägt.
Es ist Zeit, dass es Zeit wird.
Es ist Zeit.
Paul Celan
Corona
Paul Celan - 1920-1970
translated by Pierre Joris
Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends.
We shell time from the nuts and teach it to walk:
time returns to the shell.
In the mirror is Sunday,
in the dream we sleep,
the mouth speaks true.
My eye goes down to my lover’s sex:
we gaze at each other,
we speak of dark things,
we love each other like poppy and memory,
we sleep like wine in the seashells,
like the sea in the moon’s blood-beam.
We stand and embrace at the window, they watch us from the street:
it is time, for this to be known!
It is time that the stone took the trouble to bloom,
that unrest’s heart started to beat.
It’s time for it to be time.
It is time.
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Celan with Nani
Photo: Klaus Demus
Poet friendship: Paul Celan with Nani and Klaus Demus.
Photo: Klaus Demus
Passport photo of Paul Celan from 1938: Originally his name was Paul Antschel, later Romanized Ancel, from which the anagram Celan arose. He would be 100 years old on November 23, 2020.
Photo: Photographer unknown / public domain
"PEACE
NOT WAR
GENEROSITY
NOT GREED
EMPATHY
NOT HATE
CREATIVITY
NOT DESTRUCTION
EVERYBODY
NOT JUST US"
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