Transmission

Transmission

by Kelp

for Paul Celan

Poems like tears
Unmendable.
Peeking from
The ink-black brilliance
Of your shadow.

Blanket of stones walnut shells
Impenetrable to the scents of mercy
The light divine.
The scent of death so familiar and familial
Poems like tears.

Skull-shaven
Scalp-peeled
Curiosity.

Shill-shell
Bone-piled
Atrocity.

Orphaned.
Hardened.
Hand against your heart.

Poems like tears
Unfathomable.
Peaking from
The milk-black shadow
Of your brilliance.