The palm at the end of the mind,
Beyond the last thought
tree
Aus dem Reich der Kröte / Steige ich empor
The bird is a red-vented bulbul. The tree is a rainbow shower tree.
The location was Honolulu’s Koko Head District Park. The day, July 19, 2019, was windy.
The poem is Elisabeth Langgässer’s “Frühling 1946” (“Spring 1946”). The literal translation from The Penguin Book of German Verse, ed. Leonard Foster, is, “I rise out of the toad’s domain.”
Exinterior: a horticulture for M. C. Escher and Henry Moore
He accepts the water and the leaf
Morning and afternoon palettes, June 19
Look up the printer’s term “catchword”
As if she could see herself from inside her opening drawer
