Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Sunday, 28 March 2021
In Every Wave by Charles Quimper
In Every Wave
by Charles Quimper
(translated from the French by Guil Lefebvre)
I cling to your name
like a man desperate and dispossessed, probing the sound as it emerges from my
mouth into silent starless nights. I ponder it from every angle, whisper it,
recite it like a poem or prayer. I hiss it like a threat. However intoned or
inflected, your name remains unchanged, always ending on the same note that
lingers in the dark, like the inkling of a ghost…
I left you behind, my love, but I’m the one drowning every day…