Deathfuge

[Otto Sell]

"Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
we drink you at noon death is a master from Germany
we drink you at sundown and in the morning we drink and we 
drink you 

death is a master from Germany his eyes are blue 
he strikes you with leaden bullets his aim is true
a man lives in the house your golden hair Margarete
he sets his pack on us he grants us a grave in the air 
he plays with the serpents and daydreams death is a master from 
Germany 

your golden hair Margarete
your ashen hair Shulamith" (trans. Michael Hamburger) 

from:
http://www.spikemagazine.com/0900celan2.htm

Otto