Arch. Myriam B. Mahiques Curriculum Vitae

Friday, March 26, 2010

Architecture. Poem by Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998)






Over a delicate arch--

an eyebrow of stone--

on the unruffled forehead
of a wall

in joyful and open windows
where there are faces instead of geraniums

where rigorous rectangles
border a dreaming perspective

where a stream awakened by an ornament
flows on a quiet field of surfaces

movement meets stillness a line meets a shout
trembling uncertainty simple clarity

you are there
architecture
art of fantasy and stone

there you reside beauty
over an arch
light as a sigh

on a wall
pale from altitude

and a window
tearful with a pane of glass

a fugitive from apparent forms

I proclaim your motionless dance


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