<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374856" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Memoriam Paul Celan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lay these words into the dead man's grave<br>next to the almonds and black cherries---<br>tiny skulls and flowering blood-drops, eyes,<br>and Thou, O bitterness that pillows his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lay these words on the dead man's eyelids<br>like eyebrights, like medieval trumpet flowers<br>that will flourish, this time, in the shade.<br>Let the beheaded tulips glisten with rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lay these words on his drowned eyelids<br>like coins or stars, ancillary eyes.<br>Canopy the swollen sky with sunspots<br>while thunder addresses the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Syllable by syllable, clawed and handled,<br>the words have united in grief.<br>It is the ghostly hour of lamentation,<br>the void's turn, mournful and absolute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lay these words on the dead man's lips<br>like burning tongs, a tongue of flame.<br>A scouring eagle wheels and shrieks.<br>Let God pray to us for this man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Hirsch">Edward Hirsch</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374856" data-title="In Memoriam Paul Celan de Edward Hirsch" data-description="Lay these words into the dead man's grave next to the almonds and black cherries--- tiny skulls and flowering blood-drops, eyes, and Thou, O bitterness that pillows his head. Lay these words on the dead man's eyelids like eyebrights, like medieva..."></div> </div> </div>

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