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licked by a dog’s tongue, oversized
the elbian shoreline is clear like spring
the flotsam is hidden in the boscage
four meters higher than the crashing
of the low slow and ever mumbling waves.
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in climbs of bushes, lemon green,
that turn plain-coloured, sight unseen.
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a frogman emerged from the water
his black suit shining like a lump of tar
who started diving at the lowest tide
the outlines opaque, ill-defined
in the nautical dawn of hamburg, meine perle.
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big enough for two
made of samphire, driftwood, fairyland bamboo
given a shove by the stiff breeze
the absent look fixed to the cranes
in blue-grey, celeste, tangerine
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let barges pass and low scows pass
till he becomes flotsam himself
a ready made
objet trouvé
pallid and cavernous
and be
caught in an everlasting dialogue
with shipyards, floaters, skips and seagulls
on their brisk way to wilhelmsburg.
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In 2018 the sculptures and the poem were exhibited as part of Altonale 20 at Walka Ottensen, in Hamburg / Germany.
![Photo: Malte Spinder](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc1e5a869cfa0870f52d28efa23cafda29d63c59c7cbc8ce8140561e10ec2402/Altonale_GR_DSF6023-1024x682.jpeg)