I, who have strangled my daughter
obeying You
and have buried her, still
convulsing, under the ice
don't know how to drown the dark
groan which fits
nicely to your
space behond the wall. And ever since,
she speaks through me
She floats on the water
immobile and silent
about that which I don't know
if I am
May the fire burn
the mute hour, and liberate
language and pathways. May the day
be born, nude, from the melted ice.