Christophe, tais toi

Cypress trees cast their shade where Jane walks -  

She sleeps under bright stars - 

Not far from Beziers -

A ghost with hennaed hair calls me by my name - 

Christophe -

I see her bracelet, feel her breath - 

Beziers, the name waking her - 

Where her parents had their house - 

This ghost who had taken me into her world - 

I was one of her boys - 

She blew her smoke into my mouth -

Told me stories - 

Pale lovers -

The sting of desire -

My midnight Scheherazade, telling me again Christophe, tais toi - 

October 2023