Vinegrowers dig up dig
under the darkhoured watch,
depth for depth,

you read,
the invisible
one commands the wind
to stay in bounds,

you read,

the Open Ones carry
the stone behind the eye,
it recognizes you,
on a Sabbath.

TRANSLATED BY PIERRE JORIS

(C) Paul Celan
03/10/2020


Best Poems of Paul Celan

• Little Night
• With The Voice
• Count The Almonds
• Whorish Other-when
• Homecoming
• Fugue Of Death
• The Trumpet-part
• Only When
• I Can Still See You
• Psalm
• The Straitening
• Illegibility
• Tallow Lamp
• Vinegrowers
• Death Fugue
• Stuttered-over-again World
• Landscape
• O Little Root Of A Dream
• The Poles
• Night Ray
• This Evening Also