Paul Celan - Dec 8, Iyengar I

A brilliant poet, often tackling very difficult subject matter, notably about the Holocaust. Not the Holocaust, but this piece describes a little of hoe 2020 feels….

WELL-DIGGER in the wind:

someone will play the viola, downday, at the pub,

someone will stand on his head in the word Enough,

someone will hang crosslegged in the gateway, next to the bindweed.

This year

does not roar across,

it hurls back December, November,

it turns the soil of its wounds, it opens to you,

young grave-

well,

twelvemouthed.