hm... reading (nearly finished) Galizien
Eine Reise durch die verschwundene Welt Ostgaliziens und der Bukowina.A journey through the vanished world of Eastern Galicia and Bukovina.

Who still knows Galicia today? Who still knows where it is - or better, where it was? Because Galicia no longer exists. It has disappeared from the map. Its western part belongs today to Poland, its eastern part to Ukraine.Joseph Roth, perhaps the best connoisseur of this world, but also many other writers come from that region. The Jewish wit was at home here, as were the Hasidic miracle rabbis, who represented the unrestricted power in the "Städtel". Martin Pollack invites the reader to a journey into this fascinating and lost world, starting in the Jewish-Ukrainian-Polish-German populated Eastern Galicia, through Bukovina - the home of Paul Celan and Rose Ausländer - where Romanians, Hungarians, Slovaks, Armenians, but above all Gypsies still mingled among the tangle of peoples, to Lemberg, the capital of the crown land of Galicia.Contemporary photographs complement this travel book into the past.

I am in love with Bukovina, since Paul Celan was born in Cernowitz, the capital at that time...

Flower

The stone.
The stone in the air, which I followed.
Your eye, as blind as the stone.

We were
hands,
we baled the darkness empty, we found
the word that ascended summer:
flower.

Flower - a blind man's word.
Your eye and mine:
they see
to water.

Growth.
Heart wall upon heart wall
adds petals to it.

One more word like this word, and the hammers
will swing over open ground.

~Paul Celan [+]

This is my good night greeting... have some good and calm time シ

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