Paul Celan


With Changing Key

With changing key
you open the house in which
the snow of the unsaid is drifting.
And with the blood that may run
from your eye, or your mouth, or your ear,
your key will be changing.

Changing the key is changing the word
that may drift with the snow-flakes.
And in the wind that rejects you,
round the word gathers snow.


Related reading - a Paul Celan HomePage:
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