Language says: before language
stands a language. Language is traces
stained by over there.
Language says: listen now.
You listen: here was
echo.
Take silence and try to be silent.
Take the 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: come on, let’s speak you,
let’s touch you; come on, say
you’ve said –
From: https://www.versoteque.com/authors/amir-or
Date: 2004 (original in Hebrew); 2006 (translation in English)
By: Amir Or (1956- )
Translated by: Fiona Sampson (1963- )