Courtesans of forgetfulness which no no longer raises dresses,
The fawn sheepskin dresses with gold tracery,
The gloomy volumes bookmarks faded silk frays
lie scattered black powder oak cabinets.
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wings of night caress the vaults graze dormant
Where of vertical chains swinging lamps of calm,
lamps resigned in rust, and very quiet,
sips of shadows which never shine more flame.
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A fog of dust undecided secular lines;
It's raining trouble mild sweetness collected.
Since time and times, the sand sank hourglasses.
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Appearances faded things were erased;
draperies on rigidly from the world,
The Darkness nit handles sows velvety silences.
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Gustave Le Rouge
Library dead
poem published in the journal The blue eye
June 2010
Photographie : Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris
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