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Poems After Paul Celan
Sleep Then
Sleep then and my eye will remain open.
Rain filled the pitcher and we emptied it.
The night will drive a heart, the heart will drive a blade –
But it is too late, too late to reap.

Nightwind your hair is snow white, white!
White what remains to me and white what I lose!
She counts the hours and I count the years.
We drank rain. Rain is what we chose.