Se taisant -
silence panique
s'accrochant aux mots prononcés.
Aucune trace de son; visage figé; dans l'air, nul
écho de voyelle, nulle syllabe ne s'attarde.
Les mots - les a-t-il prononcés -
Autour de sa bouche se devine une ligne blanche
mince, qui s'accentue de plus en plus, qui semble
se fermer comme un cercle - oppressant.
Et pourtant il disait quelque chose.
she’s looking down to the water
grabbing my grandmother’s hand and diving
can you hear them talking
as if no winds have gone between them
swim my dearest ones
they have cherry earrings
grandma’s sewing some vanilla white shoes
hiding the knots of her youth on the back
feeling my daughter’s feet with her disappearing hands
they both look at the waters
do you follow rainbows to the end of the road
and pretend they end with a screech of the breaks
or perhaps you miss the train and convince yourself that
you were on the wrong platform or you were there just
waving someone goodbye
do you receive flowers from people you never loved
and your ‘thank you’ is the discorded key of a piano
in the middle of a concert
do you make someone cry and comforting them is a trembling hand
a surgeon never shows the world
do you etcetera your list of to do’s into a painted oblivion
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