YVAN GOLL

Thomas Rain Crowe

from: 10,000 DAWNS

translated from French

 

 

10000 dawns my angel, 10000 dawns.

10000 times the eye of the sun

Has come to open again our eyelids.

 

10000 dawns for this one night

Of our love.

Your head sculpted in my arms.

The rose-garden of your hair

On fire with 10000 red roses.

 

O what fireworks! And the 10000 voices of waves—

How many moons have passed

Delirious or sad

Covering us with the ecstasy of snow,

 

And of old men who have lent us their eyes

And of children who have eaten our hearts

In the 10000 dreams of love.

 

10000 dawns, my angel, 10000 dawns.

10000 eggs filled with

Birds and their songs.

10000 sunyolks

More than make up for this death

Of 100000 stars.

 

 

 

Your Hair

 

Your hair sets fire to the largest burning light of the century.

Your brow is the blackboard on which the secrets of men are scrawled.

Your eyes are two diamonds glued into the face of the Sphinx.

Your neck is an Eiffel Tower painted in pink.

Your lips are twin boats that dance on the Red Sea.

Your teeth are lined up like the keys of my piano.

When you speak, the acacias bloom.

Ten creeks laugh.

And when you walk,

Everything swings!