stilled with poison, great

– Paul Celan, translated by Michael Hamburgermeasures the worth of her effort

and affirms by having

as measure the weight she carries

like a good mule she has no idea

who is riding her but

she is at their service

 

like every good mule

she halts by the edge of

the cliff not dying

is her vengeance

tongueless philomela

and mule

does not jump for hatred

nor for hope

(and in it there is a fundamental

difference).

 

mule-lavínia

also had her tongue

pulled out from lucrécia

mule and sleeping

they didn’t pull anything

out but blackmail

is also a gag

mule-talia also

slept when she was

raped

it was maury and mule

who managed to

open their mouth

and by turning into a donkey

changed his own

name and of things

the new mule learned

german and vergewaltigung

ceases to be what it is

becomes some sound

said with the same

intonation as comet

fury alligator bird

match procession stone

cactus

 

the packed mule

almost mute at least

never been deaf

‘i can even hear the stones and their misfortune’

each one has what the mule says

in zarathustra

hilst’s mule

but the nightingale who sings

is the male nightingale.