From the river, forest everywhere
with yellow knights, turkey tails
and white-bearded trees
Sometimes there is a silence
and I hear the treecreeper
here and there a stone
which is described
on the map of this area
a map that is not a map
but a summary
of intersections, bridges
and solitary trees
Tonight I will rest
in an easy chair
that important invention
after the folding chair, the tilting chair
the swivel chair and the wheelchair
luckily I'm whole inside
not shaken in a coach
with suspension
fit for a rest day
for considerations
about my journey and the world
accepts the outcome
- White-bearded trees: beard lichen (usnea)
- Folding chair: [1] folding stool (2000 BC, Egypt), [2] Roman folding chair (sella curulis, curule seat) for dignitaries, [3] folding chair with armrests
- Tilting chair (reclining chair): 1900 BC in Egypt
- Swivel chair: AD 1505, Martin Löffelholz
- Wheelchair: for disabled persons (6th century BC, China and Greece), rolling office chair (AD 1840, Charles Darwin)
- Coach with suspension: reinvented in the Middle Ages
Collection "Migration"
