A Word for Living Creatures

- beginning with a line from Paul Celan's "The Meridian"
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It is broken,
snapped in two.

It cannot be repaired.
It cannot be replaced.

It is broken.

No one has the wire you need.
No one has the tools you seek.

Play on the broken wire.
Tie a knot in it.

Pluck on the knot.
Pluck on the wire.

Listen to it sing
its broken song.

Listen to its throb
and hum, hear the pause

before it sings
and sings again.

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