{"id":74893,"date":"2026-06-08T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=74893"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:16:25","slug":"petit-cabinet-7-just-two-more-times-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2026\/06\/petit-cabinet-7-just-two-more-times-to-sleep.html","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Petit Cabinet #7:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Just Two More Times to Sleep&#8217;<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Swiss poet Florian Vetsch, newly retired from teaching, showed a simple poem to a former high school student of his, Ida Lotz, who happens to be a singer. This inspired a collaboration with composer-videographer Steff Signer, who wrote a score for the poem and engaged Mario Baronchelli<\/strong> <strong>to photograph the recorded performance, thus turning &#8220;Nur Noch Zweimal Schlafen&#8221; ( &#8220;Just two more times to sleep&#8221;) into an otherworldly love song. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vr8R0ulkSx8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong><em>by Florian Vetsch<\/em> <\/strong><br><em>(translated from the German)<\/em><strong><br><br>Just two more times to sleep<br>Until you rest again in my arms <br> <br>Just two more times to sleep<br>Until your smile lights up the sky <br> <br>Just two more times to sleep<br>Until the earth blooms again beneath your feet <br> <br>Just one more time to sleep<br>Until I can say \u2018just one more time to sleep\u2019 <br> <br>Just two more times to sleep<br>Until you rest again in my arms <br> <br>Just two more times to sleep<br> <br>Just two more times to sleep <\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A simple poem becomes an otherworldly love song with the collaboration of a singer and composer.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,4,20,22,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-main","9":"category-media","10":"category-music","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/vetsch-lovesong.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-jtX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74893"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75015,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74893\/revisions\/75015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}