Francesco Clemente (b. 1952)

Inside I am the other of a self,
who feels a presence always close at hand,

one side or the other, knows another one
unlocks the door and quickly enters in.

Either as or, we live a common person.
Two is still one. It cannot live apart.


(Francesco Clemente, 'Poem for Paradigm', reproduced in Francesco Clemente, exh. cat., New York, 1999, p. 203)