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Leiris, Michel: Vertical

Portre of Leiris, Michel

Vertical (French)

Sur nos têtes

l’espace finement zébré

et parfois le labour des courants d’air violents

 

Charge de nuages vivants

horizon des épaules

 

A la ceinture

l’échevèlement des routes

les souches ensoleillées du coeur

 

Herbe

soif du sol laminé

vers la roche des genoux

 

Sous nos pieds

morceau de ciel noirci

l’ombre que nous découpons



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Vertical (English)

On our heads

the finely striped space

and sometimes the work of swift gusts of air

 

Charge of living clouds

the shoulders’ horizon

 

At the waist

the tousled routes

the sunny stumps of the heart

 

Grass

thirst of the threadbare earth

toward the rock of knee

 

Beneath our feet

piece of blackened sky

the shadow we cut



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