“Once” by Paul Celan.

~ Christine Elizabeth Murray

Once
I heard him
he was washing the world,
unseen, nightlong, real.

One and infinite,
annihilated,
ied.

Light was. Salvation.

From : Fathomsuns and Benighted,Paul Celan, trans, Ian Fairley. 1991. Carcanet Books.

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Published by Christine Elizabeth Murray

A woman and a poet - not so easy in Ireland.