The Museum
A clamor, in the distance. A crowd running under the rain
beating down, between the canvases the sea wind set clattering.
A man passes crying something. What is he saying? What he
knows! What he has seen! I make out his words. Ah, I almost understand!
I took refuge in a museum. Outside the great wind mixed with
water reigns alone from now on, shaking the glass panes.
In each painting, I think, it's as if God were giving up on
finishing the world.
(Translated by Mary Ann Caws)
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