Void

                      irregular stone 
                irregular block of slate
                        slate-grey !
                             dark ! 
           But the lines left by time
             the shaded areas
                 of washed-out substance:
                white, almost -
             a hint of it -
              as if left traces of writing
                 on a cleaned blackboard...
 

              Pointed patterns
                 greyish, whitish points
            give a message
                of human interference -
          The deepening they are appearing in
                  is almost a square
                           inserted, in the stone
                A window frame, framing
                    the roughly rectangular hole
                  The window
                                       through which we see
                     into nothingness

            The stone is the window
                  worked on
                               It lets us see
                           into nothingness

                 The window, the hole
               the empty hole:
                   They are Nothingness...
                         They  ARE

                                     Anne-Marie Klenes,
                                                       Schiste d'Herbeumont
                                                       32.5 x 21 x 8
 
 
 

                       Leer

                  unregelmaessiger Stein
                   unregelmaessiger Block aus Schiefer
                       schiefergrau !
                            dunkel !
                 Doch die Linien die die Zeit hinterliess
                      die verschatteten Flaechen
                          ausgewaschener Substanz :
                     weiss,  fast -
                         'ne Spur davon -
                        wie verbliebene Schrift-Spuren 
                            auf gereinigter Tafel

                                   Gepunktete Muster
                         grauweisse Punkte
                          geben 'ne Botschaft
                                   menschlicher Einmischung -
                      Die Vertiefung in der sie erscheinen
                           ist fast ein Quadrat
                                          eingelassen, in den Stein
                         Ein Fensterrahmen !  Rahmt das
                              rauhe, rechteckige Loch
                         Das Fenster 
                                            durch das wir blicken
                                         in's Nichts

                                Der Stein ist das Fenster
                                     das bearbeitet ward
                                        Laesst uns blicken
                                                    in's Nichts

                                      Das Fenster, das Loch
                                              das leere Loch
                                          Sie sind - Nichts
                                              Sie SIND