Günter Dinhobl (Hrsg.): Sonderband 7. Eisenbahn/Kultur – Railway/Culture (2004)

III. Soziale Ordnungen / Social orders - Heidelinde Lindorfer - Peter Waugh: Znojmo Express

mesh wire that runs in shudders our accompaniment

wall of trees

then a sudden rush of open space

wide flat land green fields tiny car so much slower on the grey road

that winds through landscape, opened wide only to close again behind the wall of trees backs of buildings

and as we slow

each tree trunk in a balding wood

seen individually as beeches

25 25

1 yellow and black

diagonal stripes

white red white 140 25 70

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Stockerau!

A crumpled cord jacket left behind on the russet platform railing Cubes, rolls, fakes, shreds ofpale yellow foam plastic A car smiles from a sign Sunday:

Tired grey Wiesel bus rests in driveway Idle wind power rotors Tractor full of sugar beets