St Paul’s Cathedral

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

St Paul’s Cathedral

We arrived there, by friends.

I can still smell their private forest,

back of the garden.

On that day, I was halted,

a minute or two.

The clock needs more

than bricks, only.

Time is not a watch.

Aside, those bricks,

I heard people, singing

and thinking, wisely after a decade.

I walk along the bricks in their Streets;

it has become an old photograph, now.

The people looked at me, these days,

as if I was familiar but in the same language,

very extraordinary.

The looks do not watch me, wildly.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

October 5, 2019

© 2019 Petra Hermans

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Photograph II : Anton Franciscus Pieck (1895-1987)

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