Death Fugue (Paul Celan Poem)
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it ...
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it ...
"Why shouldn't I have a purely vegetarian drink? Why shouldn't I take vegetables in their highest form, so to speak? ...
If I had been a Heathen, I'd have praised the purple vine, My slaves should dig the vineyards, And I ...
A vagueness comes over everything, as though proving color and contour alike dispensable: the lighthouse extinct, the islands' spruce-tips drunk ...
While you walk the water's edge, turning over concepts I can't envision, the honking buoy serves notice that at any ...
Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor swiftewd greyhound follow, Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard ...
My hands did numb to beauty as they reached into Death and tightened! O sovereign was my touch upon the ...
I am watching them churn the last milk they'll ever get from me. They are waiting for me to die; ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to ...
And this reft house is that the which he built, Lamented Jack ! And here his malt he pil'd, Cautious ...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man ...
Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes; But no meat for men is in ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, ...
The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache ...
I love to lick English the way I licked the hard round licorice sticks the Belgian nuns gave me for ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. ...
Phone for the fish knives, Norman As cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I ...
The shades of night was fallin' slow As through New York a guy did go And nail on ev'ry barroom ...
The Whale is found in seas and oceans, Indulging there in fishlike motions, But Science shows that Whales are mammals, ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
I've come to give you fruit from out my orchard, Of wide report. I have trees there that bear me ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it. Yes I am torching ber curves and paps ...
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