Bert Schierbeek - Gesigneerd gedicht - 1978

Signed poem by Bert Schierbeek, printed on a fold-out sheet and signed by the author in 1978.

a boot
in the swamp
you can’t see
a bone in it

between the
rotting toes
the beginning
of a flower
scrapes the heavens
over the earth

the earth
retreats
into the flower
that wilts
turns the face
that you saw
back into what you
do not see