ABOUT NEO RAUCH / Peripheral Nod to New York Poem by Claudia Gabler

In that moment of baby steps
it's full-grown LOVE,
the painter said.
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What an opportunity!
What a chance,
what a chance for all-encompassing applause!
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So the painter said he wanted
to do with the gates just for once
that open for these universes of dream and simultaneity.
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Eye slits instead,
snippets of eyes,
fragments of wadded, shaded words.
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As motivation for pictures
that carried out their tests, smaller than usual,
in the cool climes of botany.
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And actually needing space
for the fatal consequences
of what follows.
Translated by Bradley Schmidt