Tuesday 27 November 2018

Histoires


Les histoires, on préfère les raconter qu'en faire
les écouter du bord du sommeil,
certains les écrivent au fer
rouge, d'autres à l'encre du soleil.
Certaines histoires ne vivent qu'un soir,
d'autres pour s'écrire attendent la veille,
pour d'autres, encore, on a besoin de boire.

Les histoires, il y en a autant que de gens,
même s'il n'y en a parfois qu'une qui compte.
Elles se créent toutes en se multipliant.
Certaines sont fières, d'autres nous font honte,
d'autres tiennent à l'oubli d'un gant,
d'autres s'effacent alors que l'eau monte,
et toujours, toujours une autre qui attend.
 
 

Monday 26 November 2018

Insatiable


"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (1923-2014)


The full essay, entitled "Leaving School - II", is available here.

Sunday 25 November 2018

No man's land


Dogs pacing to and fro in kennels
ears and tail hanging low, whimpering,
growling

the thick darkness
slowly cowling the broad daylight
not your typical summer storm

it seemed a spoonful
would be darker than
the darkest night we ever knew

the people stopped ploughing
hand on brow as a visor
soon the sun blanketed

a sense of dread like a clod underfoot
a finely-polished listlessness
imperative to avoid panic

and the clouds, the clouds
amassing like billowed fear
and the dogs barking, barking

gravity warped the mirror into smithereens

people fell to their knees, prayed,
called for shelter
ran away from the epiphany

it was too much reality
too much science
too much life in one sitting

the last starless night fell upon the earth

tucked us motherly in
whispered gently, gently,
“good night”.
 

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