“Back to Square One” by Peter Land, 2015. Kunsthal Rotterdam.
It doesn’t work that way
It’s not in a can.
You can’t buy the can
and open it
and pull it out
and dress it up with mustard.
Nor can you dream it up
or get rich enough to buy it.
That’s not what it is.
It doesn’t work that way.
On a platform of the station
Days of the prophets
Fire withdrawn from a bush in the desert
smolders in hearts
awaiting wood and wind
Brother José
Not your downtown abbey
Unnerving, clipped broadcast of the Champions League
Do you know all
a ball can do
and men, too, until
the broadcast shows what they did?
Pieter
Trees of el Teide
You are a room
But are you in you?
Are you when you
fly wide in God?
