<celan's "to stand">
2003-05-09.8:57 p.m.


To stand
Paul Celan


To stand, in the shadow
of a scar in the air.

Stand-for-no-one-and-nothing.
Unrecognized,
for you
alone.

With all that has room within it,
even without
language.



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