NACH DEM LICHTVERZICHT:
der vom Botengang helle,
hallende Tag.

Die blühselige Botschaft,
schriller und schriller,
findet zum blutenden Ohr.

AFTER THE LIGHTWAIVER:
the day, bright, re-
sounding from the errand.

The flowersome message,
shriller and shriller,
finds to the bleeding ear.

Paul Celan
Eingedunkelt in
Breathturn into timestead: the collected later poetry, FSG, 2014
(Translated by Pierre Joris)