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souls. She 3⁄4 beloved Song-Word of the spheres, ever hearing the unheard, seeing the unseen, knowing the unknown: the two-fold Word, ineffable, translucent, arising from oneness to return to oneness, its totality. A cosmic reality: an innocence enchanting 3⁄4 Beauty, eternal.
P re s e n c e
Arise! O Arise! Innocence eternal! Expulse thunder’s terrors! Do away with experience’s indifference, desolation; bring forth the exuberant sphere, the garden’s yield, Eden’s grass fields. Mourn away the eternal weeping: the abyss nighting Olympus! Sing, Poesy, sing! Dream-lighting by Hades’ fields, orphaned, bleeding, riddled: Flowering.
Floressing
“We’ll sing the nursery rhyme, the one, do you hear, the one, with the Men, with the Schen, with the Menschen, yes the one with the brambles and with the pair of eyes that lay ready there as tears-and-tears.”42
42 Celan, Paul. Selected Poems and Prose. Translated by John Felstiner. Psalm. New York: London: W.W.W. Norton, 2001. 157
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