See Also: LeRoy's Performative Element - Plein Air Printmaking - Hart Crane's Father Printed with Truman Capote's Shoe at The Atlantis Paradise Island Bahamas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck-VYlMD6rA
From the Deep Waters of Sleep -
From the deep waters of sleep I wake up to consciousness.
In the distance I hear a train rumbling in the early morning.
It is going East and passes the border. Then it will stop.
I feel my heart beating too. It will go on beating for some time.
Then it will stop.
I wonder if the little heart that has beaten with mine, has stopped.
When he passed the border of birth, I laid him at my breast,
Rocked him in my arms.
He was very small then.
A white body of a man, rocked in the arms of the waves,
Is very small too.
What are we in the infinity of ocean and sky?
A small baby at the breast of eternity.
Have you heard of happiness
Springing from a deep well of sorrow?
Of love, springing from pain and despondency, agony and death?
Such is mine.
- Johanna Adriana Ader-Appels
