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Salvator Mundi

(6./7.10.2023)

Salvator Mundi

There is a foxtrail leading
Down to the river
Where the decisive paled gate
May be locked. But this time

It is about the Moon
Festival (Zhongqiujie) also called
The Midautumn Festival, here on the square.
And it is a quarter past noon, with the festival
About to begin.

On the stage a few dancers (or is it the Circus School Basel?)
Still rehearsing, and a couple of visitors
Strolling around and searching something to eat (red bean paste?)
And a couple of visitors (culturally interested people, it seems)

Inspecting the various booths, with books, brushes and inkstones
And there – oh – what may be this?
Could this be a version, a Chinese version of the world famous
Salvator Mundi (attributed to
Leonardo, but also to Melzi) engraved

Into a bell, next to some bells with apparently Buddhist motives?
The foxtrail is here, and the motif is small, alas, too small
For me to see so that I must decide to
Take some pictures and to inspect them at home, but
No, this is not a version I did not know, it’s ›just‹

A Christ, as it seems, but interesting. A Christ on a bell at the Chinese
Moon Festival, and a foxtrail (with Buddhist motives)
Taking me here to write, and back there to see, and back here to inspect
If I might see Salvator Mundi (attributed to Melzi, but also to Leonardo) again and

Everywhere. But
I do not.

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