Still from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957). Poem 18 from Charles Reznikoff’s Inscriptions (1944 - 1956): A shadow on the bright sidewalk: death was beside us showing his pistol. No! So skillful have the undertakers become that when they buried you they led us straight away from the grave and did not let us see how deep the coffin lies. To the savage, perhaps, each bird has a message; I know that they shriek only to themselves. The stars in their courses did not fight for us. View high resolution

Still from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957).

Poem 18 from Charles Reznikoff’s Inscriptions (1944 - 1956):

A shadow on the bright sidewalk:
death was beside us
showing his pistol.
No!

So skillful have the undertakers become
that when they buried you
they led us straight away from the grave
and did not let us see how deep the coffin lies.
To the savage, perhaps, each bird has a message;
I know that they shriek only to themselves.
The stars in their courses did not fight for us.

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