“Gedenke mein!Ich denke dein!
Ach, der Trennung Schmertzen
Versüsst mir die Hoffnung.”
(L. von Beethoven in “Gedenke mein!”)
Liège (B)
The building that is in a recent lock down
A self-portrait without being able to wash hands
What remains when the gate has also left the site
Hands groping behind a closed window
“I wandered through a house of many rooms.
It grew darker and darker,
Until, at last, I could only find my way
By passing my fingers along the wall.
Suddenly my hand shot through an open window,
And the thorn of a rose I could not see
Pricked it so sharply
That I cried aloud.”
(A. Lowell, no title, in Pictures of the Floating World)
Eschweiler (D)