Irina Matei

The city only had one house
(Gellu Naum)

The city only had one house
The house only one room
The room only one wall
On the wall hung one clock
The clock only had one pointer

All this time
The children grew up
With only one question

While the grown-ups
smiling astonished and impressing
grew ever smaller

The poem by Naum describes a metaphor for life. Man perceives time in the uniqueness of the place he is, for he can only stay in a single house in a single town, in a single room, move only in one direction. The poem creates a surre-alistic atmosphere, mixing real external world with the world of internal experi-ence ending in the nothingness of the unanswerable question of human exis-tence in itself.

The towers grow from the ground like young trees with light bark. They are both made from the same material, which has a strong will and yet is shape-able: concrete. Their condition is the same, maybe the less experienced tower has the properties of rough stone, while the educated one waits in perfect pro-portions.

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