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Naomi Shihab Nye
noop she is american, i was mildly surprised to learnor maybe it's translated and i'm missing something
celan?WOODFACED,
slackmawed
fool above the treadwheel:
from your earlobe
hangs and
hops your eye,
greened.
german compounds and nouns used as verbs - i want to know the technical term for thoseYup.
Very recognisable style.
he was very german in that way
i assume this is a translation from a language where the last line sounds betterO TO BE A DRAGON
If I, like Solomon,...
could have my wish--
my wish... O to be a dragon,
a symbol of the power of Heaven --of silkworm
size or immense; at times invisible.
Felicitous phenomenon!