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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

In a small Vestibule

In a distance, a far distance,

I watch the Clock change, 11 to twelve.

In my hands, a feelings rests, through

a simple daylight.

Younger, as I was, in those days,

I have seen, clothes and coats,

falling down in all skies!

I played, no cards of chest,

I laid no laughter of a Game,

the 17th and 18th Century

gave you the fool in all Times.

In twelve cards, you see,

the Joker, the 10 commanders of rabbits

with long white teeth, and mushrooms

in the woods haven’t grown, green or grey.

If you can’t write, or read, 

you have not understood,

the level of my houses,

the hearts in the winds of Air.

Do not mind, I ask you a question,

to be in Time; it asks, nothing more,

than being charmed by silence in a dining room.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

January 10, 2020

© 2020 Petra Hermans

Photograph II : Rooi Pannen, Tilburg, the Netherlands, January 2014

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