Alicante
~ Jacques Prevert
Ta robe sur le tapis
Et toi dans mon lit
Doux présent de la présent
Fraîcheur de la nuit
Chaleur de ma vie
An orange upon the table
Your dress on the rug
And you in my bed
Sweet present of the present
Cool of the night
Warmth of my life
Alas the translation is inadequate in its expression of the ephemeral and slightly detached quality of the captured moment, the sensual tension between presence and absence, and the fleeting moment that is so joyful precisely because it is fleeting.
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