Rolf Dieter Brinkmann - Between-Times lyrics

Hand before the eyes or hand not before the eyes then the light changes from the water to the tree: there is it a bird or not a bird an elephant a snail in intervals observed from a balcony no not a balcony then from a window but not from a window standing in the door the hand before the eyes as it came by did not come in went away while the shadows changed from one mood to another was it a fish a bird certainly not it was still light no longer day not night either at this time