From the series: "Time in Color" - a photo on Flickriver

            Time in Color

Quick! Colors through the window
 Colors on fields and forests
 Before the weather changes
 And changes everything
 Empties fields and forests of their substance
 And ponds and farms
 How fleeting the sun is!
 How the sky mocks our admiring gaze
 Eternity is an optical illusion
 Immensity a dubious abstraction
 The wheatfields’ gold – quick!
 The pink of bricks piled on a building-site – quick!
 The foliage’s chilly green – quick!
 The rust-color of bushes, train-tracks, roadbeds – quick!
 The yellow of colza in nearly-black fields
 The silver of streams
 The silt-browned green of fish-filled rivers – quick!
 Cabbages’ purple in well-mannered squares – quick!
 The road’s grey – quick!
 The absolute blue of clear sun-softened autumn days – quick!
 Red! Red! Tractors’, cars’, traffic-lights’ red – quick!
 The red of a hunter’s cap, his rifle wedged in his armpit – quick!
 (And soon the imagined red of a slain beast’s blood)
 The metallic green of our roadside poplars – quick!
 Blue slate roofs – quick!
 The blue of distant mountains – quick!
 Stone blue, horizon blue,
 Blue light falling in a fine mist on the world – quick!
 And white – I had almost forgotten white – the white of dusty roads, earthen ones
 The white of cows lazing in pastures – quick!
 Omnipresent white, that the eye disdains
 Of a wall between two cypresses, of trucks going swiftly past
 White – quick!
 Then black! Black! The black of fertile earth ploughed over and over again – quick!
 The black of a horse driven mad by the trains
 Who gallops in crazed circles alongside the fence – quick!
 The black of a village chimney silent as a closed mouth – quick!
 The black of a village church-bell never to be caught up in the savior’s arms –
   quick!
 White, black, green, pink, blue and gold –
Quick! Quick! Quick!

 

Emmanuel Moses

Translation:  Marilyn Hacker

 
  
  
  
   

Taken on: October 4, 2022

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