Derrière la chose peinte
le silence affamé
guette écoute
l’image du monde lui sert d’oreille
ne rest que du temps
travesti en espace
Behind the painted thing
ravenous silence
lurks to eavesdrop
an effigy of the world lends its ear
nothing remains except time
masquerading as space
This poem “Fragment 2” originally appeared in Emerging Scholars. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 226 (Autumn 2015): 54.
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