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God of rooms

                                        for Paul Celan

God of rooms, of this room made of taken away
papers and books, of removal, this single
room made of taken-away
empty now, god of empty rooms, god of
one unable to speak, god of turned over boats
in the wind (god of boat and mouth and ear)
listen to someone, be of-you
needful to someone