Angelus Novus

Klee's New Angel

Free in air

not paradise 

not hell

transgendering the space

the hands turning 

towards the body 

or backward 

humans should

be careful

what they wish for

history

is progress

as Benjamin said

transcending

in the mirror 

you see the light

alas too late

Now Klee's Angel

is old and tired?

Inspired by Paul Klee's Angelus Novus and Walter Benjamins comment:

From wikipedia:
In his ninth thesis in the essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” Walter Benjamin, who owned the print for many years, describes:

A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.^[1]