1.à Eva-Maria Berg
Je suis né
dans un pays de neiges
et de cendresPays où l’on n’arrive
Jamais.Et que jamais,
on ne quitte ni ne connaît
Pays d’où personne ne vient,
où
le soleil croît
en larmes de cendres,
débris de neiges noircies
et d’âmes englouties
dans l’étincelle
des silences enfuisJe suis né – ici,
ainsi que naît la peur.
2.
À la limite extrême
des mondes abandonnés
se produit le son
d’étoiles amères
égarées sous la voûte
de nos corps enfermésAlors
la lune s’enroule
aux lisières tranchées
de veines de granitoù luit la parole
des épaves glaciaires
échouées sur la grève
de nos vies
3.
Silencieux
un morceau d’étoileme regarde
à travers les cailloux
de pluiel’heure approche
de lui tendre la main
1.for Eva-Maria Berg
I was born
in a country of snow
and ashesA country where one
never arrives.And one
never leaves, never knows,
A country where no one comes,
where
the sun distills
tears of ash
the debris of blackened snow
and souls swallowed up
in the sparks
of retreating silencesI was born—here,
just as fear is born.
2.
At the extreme limit
of abandonned worlds
the sound of bitter stars
is heard
wandering beneath the vault
of our cloistered bodiesThen
the moon enfolds
the borders carved
from veins of granitewhere the word shines out
from glacial rubble
abandonned on the strand
of our lives
3.
In silence
the fragment of a stareyes me
through the pebbles
of rainthe hour is coming
to hold out my hand to him
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