Old meeting room by Martin Reints

Old meeting room On the tables pushed together a tray with cups a glass bowl with packets of milk powder a glass bowl with packets of sugar and a box with tea bags thermos jugs, cupboards from a distant past a flip-chart fallen into disuse as a painter's easel in the south of France where the air quivers with the heat making cypresses look like filmed cypresses empty, undulating landscape with stone walls and abandoned country houses museums with old attendants on folding chairs and successful managers who pass by while looking at paintings cars in car parks school buses with schoolchildren. (Original title: 'Oud vergaderzaaltje' -from the collection 'Lopende zaken'(Current affairs), 2010 - Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam)

Martin Reints [1950]