The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

SILVIA BARON SUPERVIELLE

Here Time

here time
neither holds
nor loses

here grass
finds rest
from ruins

whether I come
or whether
I go

nothing is
altered

no change
to eternity

of the invisible
lord
of the desert

I am
the unfulfilled
desire

I have pronounced
the syllable
of your name

I have experienced
the gleam
of your eyes

I have recognized
the eclipse
of your face

without relief
I build
a sca√old