Quiver
 

                     Beautiful blue
                             edge of wood.
                      Wood color! 
                                        Complementary!

                          The shadow on the wall
                              yet another, 

                                             a faint color!

                        I don't know what you are for,
                                      blue tentacles
                                         of this tiny, brown
                                                    wooden quiver.

                                     A hollow object

                                            made of the halfed segment

                                                   of a bamboo pole -
 

                                                 Jean-Georges Massart,
                                                            Bamboe, vuur, blauw pigment (2009)
 
 
 
 

                           Koecher
 

                          Betoerendes Blau!
                              Holzrand.
                    Holzfarbe. Komplementaer!

                     Der Schatten auf der Wand -
                            eine weitere
                             eine gedaempfte Farbe.

                     Ich weiss nicht welchem Zweck ihr dient
                                  blaue Tentakel
                               dieses kleinen, braunen 
                                         hoelzernen Koechers. 

                             Ein hohler Gegenstand 

                           gemacht aus dem halbierten Abschnitts

                                   eines Bambusrohrs -