“Im Quell deiner Augen

erwürgt ein Gehenkter den Strang.”
Paul Celan

Sunday, December 3, 2023

HOMELESS


Each of you was a guy rope 
fixing us to earth and tribe, 
but now those ropes are cut, 
and our tent is a rag in wind. 

A storm has taken our rag 
as it were a sail and whipped it 
out to sea, where it rides the rain 
and wind like a broken wing.

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