Dutch

 Red Light

This tool finds itself on top.

if I flip its height downward

it is far away from me.
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A ceiling, a bottom now is made

the forms fall so and so

like a die

but also up.
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The red light and everything

that comes from it

embraces shapes one by one.

matter radiates and rests

and is in balance with what moves ahead.
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The image that comes about

indicates direction,

beckoning me

pointing to something

past its center.
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The light seems a monument to me

looking back and ahead

with great respect

for what came before

and what will come next.
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That which it shows

ahead, behind

to its side

to its left and to its right

is also shown to it.
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More is peeled off,

more is unrolled.

one leg is torn off

one leg remains.

this is the last layer

which covers and unveils.

Here the movement of the color stops.


Vertalingen van de Nederlandse leraar van de United Nations School 1988