Author: Karel Toman

Cited by

• Jaroslav Kalfar (1)
  • IN: Spaceman of Bohemia (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A house in ruins. Through the cracked walls spread gluttonous ferns, and the parasitic bands of lichen. On the ground sprouts delphinium, a nettle forest. The poisoned well a water trough for rats. The frail apple tree, split by lightning, forgets whether it once bloomed. On clear days, singing goldfinches fall into the ruins. On sunlit bright days a clock's arc lives on the facade, capricious and joyful the shadow of time dances, and recites solemnly to the skies: Sine sole nihil sum. For everything is a mask.
    FROM: The Sun Clock, (None), Poem, Czech Republic