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Vivian Smith
Poems After Paul Celan
In Praise of Distance
Poems After Paul Celan
In Praise of Distance
Poems After Paul Celan
In Praise of Distance
In the spring of your eyeslive the nets of the fishermen of the mad sea.
In the spring of your eyes
the sea keeps its promises.
Here I, a heart
that has dwelt among humans,
cast off my clothes and the lustre of an oath:
blacker in black, I am more naked.
Only now disloyal am I faithful.
I am you when I am I
in the spring of your eyes
I drift and dream of plunder.
A net catches a net
we part embracing.
In the spring of your eyes
a hanged man strangles the rope.
© 1995, Vivian Smith
From: New Selected Poems
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney
From: New Selected Poems
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney
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Poems After Paul Celan
In Praise of Distance
In the spring of your eyeslive the nets of the fishermen of the mad sea.
In the spring of your eyes
the sea keeps its promises.
Here I, a heart
that has dwelt among humans,
cast off my clothes and the lustre of an oath:
blacker in black, I am more naked.
Only now disloyal am I faithful.
I am you when I am I
in the spring of your eyes
I drift and dream of plunder.
A net catches a net
we part embracing.
In the spring of your eyes
a hanged man strangles the rope.
From: New Selected Poems
Poems After Paul Celan
In Praise of Distance
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