Sublime

With his baby seat empty, he merged into the gridlock of troubled strangers slowly going nowhere.

The Little Kid

Before entering the ship, the enslaved girl is lifted up by men in order to look over an odd thing—a specially built free-standing door frame that has been set up in the open air. She describes three successive visions of the next world and its inhabitants: a ‘Paradise’ beautiful and green like a garden, where the girl’s dead family is already wait

stand lead-footed, watching the ball skid low, graze the inside of the line on its way to set the chain-link fence into song.

Back in the village, with our soured relationships, we are neurotic, but the wood releases our full-blown madness. Birds and animals talk to us, departed souls speak.

Über die Wiese hatte sie der Vater in die Welt hineingeschleppt, in den Wald hatte sie der Vater über diese Wiese zuerst hineingetragen, dann an der Hand nachgezerrt und schließlich vor sich hergetrieben über den Wiesenweg und später über andere Wege, von verschiedenen Anmarschpunkten her immer in denselben Wald hineingeschleppt hinter dem Lattenza