Amir Or
LANGUAGE SAYS
Language says: before language
there stands a language. Language is tainted
traces from yonder.
Language says: listen now.
You listen: there has been an
echo.

Take silence and try to be silent.
Take words and try to speak;
Beyond language, language is a wound
from which the world flows and flows.
Language says: Is, Is not, Is,
Is not. Language says: I.
Language says: let’s speak you,
let’s touch you, let’s say
you have said.
Translated by Irit Sela

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