THREADSUNS

Threadsuns

above the grayblack wastes.

A tree-

high thought

grasps the light-tone: there are still songs to sing beyond mankind.

PAUL CELAN

(1963, in Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry by Paul Celan. Translated from the German and with Commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, P.14.)