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Brenessel-Hand simply means"nettle hand"/"urtica hand". I picked this name from Paul Celan's manuscript variant text to his poem Notgesang（which means The Song of Distress）. I can't simply conclude the verses here because that would be trivial. Efforts to conclude modern poetry always fall in void. But I was moved by a verse which contains the image of "spiky shrub". The spikes, in the verse, are unmistakably extending out towards one. The distress, which namingly came from a feeling so obscure that can not be explained reaches for human mind by its stinging form. The variant text however, says that it is just right for a nettle hand. In my own perspection, nettle hand is one hand that already has spikes on itself which makes it unafraid of distress. It gives me the idea that one's courage depends on one's sorrow. Words are as light as they can be, if you want words to weigh, the only way is to put them together to speeches. Speeches weigh as much as one's sorrow. Speeches are one's brave hand to pluck one's own distress. And courage, is what I think man needs most to create truth. The last verse of the poem says there is a petite death wandering around. I guess fighting is the one spirit. The one spirit to perish our life and create truths.