Gérard – Barthomeuf

 To the tangled clouds of autumn   
 low on the horizon   
 like allowed caresses   
 they left   
 alone   
 step by step   
 noiseless   
 the wind prolonging their tracks   
 from across the universe   
 applicant   
 gauze streaks   
 on the cool ground   
 loves and worries   
 pains and pleasures   
 aux portes du temps.  
    
 They left   
 and I hold their hand   
 these people in my family   
 who from cradles to bridal beds   
 from birth to death   
 waved the garlands   
 at patronal feasts   
 killing the pig   
 sharing the Sunday pacade   
 and clicking the picture   
 dans le pradou d'en bas.  
    
 They left   
 find the earth   
 dive into the ether       
 who stirs us up and distributes us   
 to support us   
 in touch with white waters   
 in contact with the Mystery   
 their souls traveling   
 far far away in space   
 to the wall of eternal expectations   
 whose crevices conceal   
 memory bubbles   
 hatched by love   
 exploded by rupture   
 permanent in their singular train   
 sur le devant de la Maison.  
    
 momentum of life
 recomposition of matter      
 Dance of Death   
 to the rattling of bones   
 answers the lark's trill   
 companion of initiatory works   
 festive round gathering     
 my family members   
 you invisible ones who are not absent      
 Marie, Victor, Jean Baptiste, Pierre, Renée, 
Jeanne, Fernanda, Marthe, Jean, Georges, 
Lucien, Christian, Charles, Marcelle, 
Pierre-Sylvain, Marius, Philomena, Julie, 
Raymond, René, Jeannette, Michel, Henri, 
Lucie, Léon, Robert, Madeleine, Alain, 
Robert, Marguerite, André, Pierre, Alphonsine, 
Yvette, Renée, Gildas, Marie, Jean, Michel, 
Marie-Claude, Luce.


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  ( Work by Jean-Christophe De Clercq ) 

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