Bamboo
in your silences I can make out
Bamboo
African girls from Abyssinia
Bamboo
in your mutism, your delirium
Bamboo
spans from Angola to Zaire
Bamboo travels through her mind
she stands next to me and yet already left me
All of Bamboo's silences
scream inside my head and drive me mad
Bamboo
in you vagrant stare I can make out1
Bamboo
fevers with tropical moistness
Bamboo
as your pupils dilate
Bamboo
murky pond water gets reflected in them
The rainy season is over
Bamboo is done crying
she was quick to console herself
All of Bamboo's silences
scream inside my head and drive me mad
You are desert, Bamboo
and jungle, Bamboo
a bamboo forest
and a sunstroke2
Bamboo
in your silences I can make out
Bamboo
African grils from Abyssinia
Bamboo
in your concussions
Bamboo
I see Equatorial Africa
You are desert, Bamboo
and jungle, Bamboo
a bamboo forest
and a sunstroke
1. "se dessiner" and "se dévoiler" basically mean "can be glimpsed" or "can be made out" as I translated it2. lit. "a bamboo stroke". another of Mr. Chamfort's little puns :)