"... like the veins on your ink-stained hand—

the birch all elbows, taking us in."

— Cynthia Zarin, from "Birch"

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Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Marriage, 2004 (source)

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"An angel has walked through the room—:
you, near the unopened book,
acquit
me once more.

Twice the heather finds nourishment.
Twice it fades."

— Paul Celan, "Highgate"

Translated by Michael Hamburger