A poem from 'Palimpsest' by the Danish poet Klaus Høeck

THE RIBBON OF EXTREMES

(1932)

throughout my entire

production runs a ribbon

of incomprehen

sibility (like

a milky way) a ribbon

of paradoxes

a thin möbius

strip that binds words and senten

ces and images

together into

the whole that makes the poems

understandable

(To see the original painting, go to here)