J'escalade mes naissances de mère en mère
| I climb my births and rebirths from mother to mother
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| Mes naissances | My births, my rebirths
| me poursuivent | pursue me
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| Je passe à travers les mères | I pass through all my mothers
| sans les retenir | without holding onto them
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| Des marches descendent | Steps go down
| vers leurs bassins | towards their ponds
| où nagent les viscères | where the viscera swim
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| J'y fais flotter mon ombre | In there I make my shadow float
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| ............ * | ............ *
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| Ma mère m'attend | My mother is waiting for me
| au bord de la plaine | at the edge of the plain
| je m'enfoncerai avec elle | I will plunge with her
| dans la terre verdoyante | into the verdant land
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| Il est temps | It is time
| que le fruit | the fruit
| retourne à sa racine | returned to its root
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| Chaque jour je mange | Each day I eat
| mon père et ma mère | my mother and my father
| avec du pain chaud | with warm bread
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| Je crache des touffes | I spit out tufts
| de leurs cheveux | of their hair
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| Je revois ma mère morte | I see my dead mother again
| nuit par nuit | night after night
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| Elle se dévêtit devant moi | She undresses before me
| mettant à nu | laying bare
| la chair pourrie du monde | the rotted flesh of the world
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| Elle me veille de près | She is close by, watching me
| à la fois tendue et immobile | at once both tense and motionless
| sous son cuir chevelu | with her patchy scalp
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