I saw you in the distance
I saw
you

And I cried.

I cried because I didn’t know what to do

Sophie, je t’aime!
Sophie!
Je t’aime!

Do you
Do you hear me?
Can’t you see?
These glass
Marbles
With drops of
Black

These glass
Palpitations
Blood red

Toi-
Vous-
Aime moi

Je ne pas-

Et dormir

A spiral of grey
Butter
Flutter
Flutterflies
And the ticking
Second
Second-hand ticking away

Wait
As we wait
As we wait and see
Look
Listen
Love

L’amour est un oiseau rebelle

And run.

“I sometimes have a queer

feeling with regard to you –

especially when you

are near me,

as now:“

the liquids rise

in their glass marbles

an emulsion

connected

by an energy, a thin thread

Reach.

“it is as if I had a string

somewhere under my left ribs,

tightly

and inextricably

knotted”

the spirits settle

recognition

blood pounding

brains bursting

banshee shrieks and yet, safe

Not alone.

“to a similar string

situated

in the corresponding quarter

of your

little frame.“

speech

words, you don’t hear

truths

passing through

invisible spheres, listen

‘Cap ou pas cap?’

“And if that boisterous

Channel,

and two hundred miles

or so of land

come broad between us,“

actions

shared

one

i, love

no

Leave.

“I am afraid that cord

of communion

will be snapt;

and then

I’ve a nervous notion”

no salt

no rain

not from these empty

glass marbles

but yes, they’re falling – leaking

Broken.

“I should take

to bleeding inwardly.

As for you,

wrong

nothing

right

everything

just

A game?

“- you’d forget me.”

[Words in italics taken from Jane Eyre by Emily Brontë, phrase “cap ou pas cap?” meaning “are you game/capable or not?” in French, taken from Jeux D’enfants, a film directed by Yann Samuel.]