HABIB TENGOURthere at the edge of the sea where the rays dance
there was a secret familiar guard
this impatience /candelabra summer
beginning summer it was going to end a
hell of the dreams told
unaccomplished there remains only the dulled tension
of the hearts tossed about in the bus stations in
paradise hearts dazzled in the marvelous
instant of unknown abandon strange blue
BLUE the trance bears away the incandescent soul
far from the town where our heavy dreams strut
from having dreamed aloud exchanged
their secrets in broad daylight it’s the Borâq mare
she rises winged tipsy and trembles at coming closer
she looks in my soul and the silent soul
vainly the heart brings back to life the imprint e√aced
look how once more your life stretches forth into the void
in the eye which envelops the sadness of the beast
whom you question she doesn’t reply
on the earth the sky a cloak scarcely covering
the evening something’s bleeding she stays silent
transported in the emptiness of her soul healed
mingling with her vein incandescent
INCANDESCENT my soul /... incandescent/ dawn
in the dawn’s palm loving heart
a pebble splits open as if loving
on the sand dawn singles out a gem
rose tremors and caresses bear the heart to the soul
successive dawns will have polished the texture
how is it that the mother of pearl settles there spark
at the first ray upon the sand among the pebbles
this one alone standing in the sun in the white
of summer — facing the songs — terraces
a season our souls are white with fire
on the blind terrace are rejoicing limestone
waves and breezes murmuring in the blue of the gem
your gaze /echoing the sea heart dawn
DAWN one then the other the cords slip Those Knotted
with evil spells... reintegrate the eye low the repair