Esther Naomi Perquin – Upward
Former city poet and Poet Laureate Ester Naomi Perquin wrote the poem up in honor of the artwork Parabola Blues (2021) and its creator Madeleine Berkhemer (1973-2019).
Publication date: 14 / 12 / 2021up
Here, in a triumphant V, looking returns. The livelywalk, the uncounted steps of the days before demolition;the lines of the bars are still in the sky.The shape turns with it, to pencil point, blade, injection needle. your lookdetermines the image. Here is no view that you share, at most aspectsof a language that no longer sounds: the rise and fall oflooted days, stolen gold that glitters in the sunlight;from top to bottom you walk differently thanup from the bottom.Here remains the step that is missing, the coincidence of the eye,the step that misses. Distance, too great to measure,is the smallest distance there is.