Humbolt photo template for next painting
frantic dap and smear on the first of the return trees.
gonna build myself a treehouse look-out starting now.
Sensitive inhabitants of the forests of ourselves.
Jules Supervielle
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| It’s good to have chosen A living home And housed time In a ceaseless heart And seen my hands Alight on the world, As on an apple In a little garden, To have loved the earth, The moon and the sun Like old friends Who have no equals, And to have committed The world to memory Like a bright horseman To his black steed, To have given a face To these words — woman, children, And to have been a shore For the wandering continents And to have come upon the soul With tiny strokes of the oars, For it is scared away By a brusque approach. It is beautiful to have known The shade under the leaves, And to have felt age Creep over the naked body, And have accompanied pain Of black blood in our veins, And gilded its silence With the star, Patience, And to have all these words Moving around in the head, To choose the least beautiful of them And let them have a ball, To have felt life, Hurried and ill loved, And locked it up In this poetry.
Jules Supervielle | |