“I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand
lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take
I lose sight of my true being.”
(R. Tagore in Gitanjali no. 2)
Visé (B)
Long Time Gone
“Just give to me my gravestone
With it clearly carved upon:
“I’s a long time a-comin’
An’ I’ll be a long time gone””
(Bob Dylan in Long Time Gone)
Jemeppe (B)
Memories of flying on the wall
Beyond the horizon
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)