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Peter Gizzi
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Je staat ver van de menigte, vlak naast de macht.Je overweegt het kader en ook het beeld.
Je overweegt schoonheid, scherptediepte, belichting
om het gebied te begrijpen en de menigte.
Laat op de dag ontploft de atmosfeer
en revolutie, wel, revolutie is alles.
Je begint voor het eerst in te zien
dat alles net zo is als al het laatste
maar tegengesteld en maar voor even.
Als een revolutie zijn baan voltooit
keren de objecten terug alleen anders
door steeds hetzelfde te zijn gebleven.
Door te gaan had je je niet voorgesteld.
Wel had je je voorgesteld om te veranderen
en veranderd ben je en de menigte net zo.
© Vertaling: 2014, Samuel Vriezen
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You stand far from the crowd, adjacent to power.You consider the edge as well as the frame.
You consider beauty, depth of field, lighting
to understand the field, the crowd.
Late into the day, the atmosphere explodes
and revolution, well, revolution is everything.
You begin to see for the first time
everything is just like the last thing
only its opposite and only for a moment.
When a revolution completes its orbit
the objects return only different
for having stayed the same throughout.
To continue is not what you imagined.
But what you imagined was to change
and so you have and so has the crowd.
© 2007, Peter Gizzi
From: The Outernationale
Publisher: Wesleyan, Middletown, CT
From: The Outernationale
Publisher: Wesleyan, Middletown, CT
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You stand far from the crowd, adjacent to power.You consider the edge as well as the frame.
You consider beauty, depth of field, lighting
to understand the field, the crowd.
Late into the day, the atmosphere explodes
and revolution, well, revolution is everything.
You begin to see for the first time
everything is just like the last thing
only its opposite and only for a moment.
When a revolution completes its orbit
the objects return only different
for having stayed the same throughout.
To continue is not what you imagined.
But what you imagined was to change
and so you have and so has the crowd.
From: The Outernationale
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