THE YEARS FROM YOU TO ME BY PAUL CELAN
Your hair waves once more when I weep. With the blue of your
eyes
you lay the table of love: a bed between summer and autumn.
We drink what somebody brewed, neither I nor you nor a third:
we lap up some empty and last thing.
We watch ourselves in the deep sea’s mirrors and faster pass
food to the other:
the night is the night, it begins with the morning,
beside you it lays me down.
trans. Michael Hamburger
