Another painting destroyed by the Nazis at Schloss Immendorf

Klimt’s Medicine

Death

Is a skeleton,

A bony frame,

In the river of life.

…

The river of life

Is a mass of figures,

Male and female,

Nude.

…

Nude

Is the woman

Afloat in space,

Newborn life

At her feet.

…

At their feet,

Is Hygeia,

Snake coiled

Around her arm,

Cup of Lethe in her hand,

Glorious in scarlet and gold,

Turning her back on mankind.

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