dimanche 21 mars 2021

Le choix des arbres


 

L'un de nous ne peut avoir tort


I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me.
But the room just filled up with mosquitos,
They heard that my body was free.
Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night
And I put it in your little shoe.
And then I confess that I tortured the dress
That you wore for the world to look through.
 

I showed my heart to the doctor: he said I just have to quit.
Then he wrote himself a prescription,
And your name was mentioned in it!
Then he locked himself in a library shelf
With the details of our honeymoon,
And I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse
And his practice is all in a ruin.
 

I heard of a saint who had loved you,
So I studied all night in his school.
He taught that the duty of lovers
Is to tarnish the golden rule.
And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure
He drowned himself in the pool.
His body is gone but back here on the lawn
His spirit continues to drool.
 

An Eskimo showed me a movie
He'd recently taken of you:
The poor man could hardly stop shivering,
His lips and his fingers were blue.
I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes
And I guess he just never got warm.
But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice,
Oh please let me come into the storm.

Léonard Cohen

samedi 20 mars 2021

Rassembler des fragments plus ou moins lumineux

 Je pense quelquefois que si j'écris encore, c'est, ou ce devrait être pour rassembler des fragments plus ou moins lumineux et probants d'une joie dont on serait tenté de croire qu'elle a explosé un jour, il y a longtemps, comme une étoile intérieure et répandu sa poussière en nous.
Qu'un peu de cette poussière s'allume dans un regard, c'est sans doute ce qui nous trouble, nous enchante ou nous égare le plus; mais c'est, tout bien réfléchi, moins étrange que de surprendre son éclat, ou le reflet de cet éclat fragmenté, dans la nature. Du moins ces reflets auront-ils été pour moi l'origine de bien des rêveries, pas toujours absolument infertiles.
P. Jaccottet, 
« Le cerisier », 
in « Cahier de verdure » (1990)
Cité par Augustin Trapenard 
(sur instagram)

Envolée de violettes