Tag archives for Prose
The Candle
The soup with jonquils that's eaten at the fairies' house, a dull little spoon gave me the recipe. One evening it lured me under its raincoat. In the dark, against…
The Bell’s Dress
She's morning's residence. She's as clear as she is invisible, as tranquil as forgotten lands. Her hair is golden, her smooth windows exchange glances. She appears in bold alluring colors,…
Merisette
What was it a question of? A hair's breath, in all. A tree was catching fire, a pond was sulking, a dew sprinkled maid-servant was lulled to sleep by currant…
The Clouds
When the dawn's heart begins to beat, the high little clouds come down to breakfast in the trees. * Behind the masked clouds playing the big drum, real clouds, still…
Schooldays
Thursday is always pleasant with frost and a naked girl on the country's palm. The merchant of clouds counts the precious stones of the amazing house: an inviting lamp. The…
Fable
A village bell-tower was sleepy. It wrapped itself in a little band of trees, counted to three and fell asleep. When it woke up, there were no more than a…
The Nobleman of Bellgourd
The nobleman steps down from his carriage. It's a district in the mountain valley. The white shapes of old hands knit caps for thousands of spice-boxes. At the manor, the…
The Elephant’s Spectacles
The dormouse was an ice-floe of the mammoth era. The wind turned leaves in the washed linen. They heard the sun approach and withdraw, with a solemn step, like organ…
Bob
He gently does his angelic work. The school has four walls and its windows play dominoes. Daytime opens its laughing drawers: yellow battles, slow cards, wise measures, sleeping gloves. Then,…
Summer
After exhausting itself with white dust on the roads and bilberries in the wood, great summer, disarrayed and weak, is pulled in through the roof, through its wicker hall shaped…
Nat Pinkerton
The blue glasses, found in an elevated railroad car, belong to the victim, Lady Morton. But Nat and the coroner, misled to the black windows in depots, re-enact the daily…