Language  Says

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 handle you; come on, say
you've said –   

Translated from Hebrew by Fiona Sampson and the author