RENE CHAR'S WAY

Faithful and urgent son
of living tongue transparencies
opening expressions
infant in its solitude
from the winds mid-dreams
recollecting your sustained fluency
over the recollected shadows
ambushing the mirrored prompter
in banishment and exile
from ashen forgiving remorse
on deserted midnight streets
crackling in the pea-green Seine
by the morning gorse light
a river of fiery painted visions
translates in a rapture wave of grief
battering the ending of sorrows
we watch the floating oars
become a new lyrical lover
as the rain intoxicates
into a fraternal metamorphosis
your refrains of belief
eyes the exiled migrations
wounded by conscience
as the wounded silence joins
your eternal pilgrimages
on our earth's abyss
to the miraculous azure sky.