“Oh the time will come up
When the winds will stop
And the breeze will cease to be breathin’
Like the stillness in the wind
’Fore the hurricane begins
The hour when the ship comes in”
(Bob Dylan in When the ship comes in)
Charleroi (B)
When renovation comes to a standstill
Rhythms of industry
Lost wheels in the heat
I’m renovating
“I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer
and you a woman who loves the man who runs a drug store.
I don’t care like I used to; I lay bricks straighter than I
used to and I sing slower handling the trowel afternoons.
When the sun is in my eyes and the ladders are shaky and the
mortar boards go wrong, I think of you.”
(C. Sandburg in Bricklayer love)
Liège (B)