laitnoir

Black Milk

Black Milk of dawn we drink it in the evening
We drink it in the morning and at midday
we drink it at night
We drink and we drink

 

Paul Celan, Death Fugue, excerpt
Poppy and Memory, poetry collection, 1952

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Drink black milk, at night, in a cellar.
Performances
Orléans, 2009
Co-production L’Identité remarquable
Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, 2004
Thumbnail on left © Lucie Cluzan, 2009