quite fine
KS
On 28/12/06, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> The retrospective view at the end of the year
> should perhaps be taken more seriously than before.
>
> It's not such a harmless pass-time
> to bring children into the world.
>
> Bluish across the horizon,
> phosphorescing sheet-lightning.
>
> I, as actor, with folded arms
> at the centre of the circle:
> 'Let it lightning!'
>
> The pose, meanwhile, didn't last long.
> One becomes in the course of one day,
> for a while, a bit larger,
> and then a bit smaller again.
>
> Something of the spirit
> of Joseph the carpenter
> is also appropriate
> to such a small-scale patriarch.
>
> Something of the sublimity,
> something of the pretension,
> something of the bizarre,
> something of the spiritual,
> all lying under lock and key.
>
> --Paul Klee
>
> tr. Harriet Watts
>
> in Three Painter-Poets: Arp/Schwitters/Klee
> [Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974]
>
>
>
>
> Hal
>
> Halvard Johnson
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