VISION

Djanet, Sahara d'Algérie (2002)
Trip to Djanet, south-eastern part of Algeria (2002)


Poème

Autour de lui le temps, l'air, le paysage devenaient indécis.
Couché sur le sable, ce que j'en apercevais
Entre les deux branches écartées de ses jambes nues, tremblait.

Le sable gardait la trace de ses pieds,
Mais gardait aussi la trace du paquet trop lourd
D'un sexe ému par la chaleur et le trouble du soir.
Chaque cristau étincelait.

Le pêcheur du Suquet, Jean Genet, 1946



Round him time, air, landscape become wavering.
Lain down on the sand, what I could perceive
Between the two wide apart branches of his bare legs, trembeled.

The sand kept the marks of his feet,
But kept also the mark of his too heavy basket
Of a sex stirred by the heat and the trouble of the evening.
Each crystal shone.

The Fisherman of Le Suquet, Jean Genet, 1946