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I've got butterflies in my stomach, le blog de catherine grangier
I've got butterflies in my stomach, le blog de catherine grangier
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10 juin 2014

les chaussures rouges...

"the red shoes"

I stand in the ring
In the dead city
And tie on the red shoes.
Everything that was clam
Is mine, the watch with an ant walking,
The toes, lined up like dogs
The stove long before it boils toads,
The parlor, white in winter, long before flies,
The doe lying down on the moss long before the bullet.
I tie on the red shoes.

They are not mine.
They are my mother's.
Her mother's before
Handed down like an heirloom
But hidden like shameful letters.
The house and the street where they belong
Are hidden and all the women, too,
Are hidden.

All those girls
Who wore the red shoes,
Each boarded a train that would not stop.
Stations flew by like suitors and would not stop.
They all danced like trout on the hook
They were played with.
They tore off their ears like safety pins.
Their arms fell off them and became hats
Their heads rolled off and sang down the street.
And their feet---oh God, their feet in the market place---
Their feet, those two beetles, ran from the corner
And then danced forth as if they were proud.
Surely, people exclaimed,
Surely they are mechanical. Otherwise…

But the feet went on.
The feet could not stop.
They were wound up like a cobra that sees you.
They were elastic pulling itself in two.
They were islands during an earthquake.
They were ships colliding and going down.
Never mind you and me.
They could not listen.
They could not stop.
What they did was the death dance.

What they did would do them in.

 

anne sexton

 

SAM_7353

 

des chaussures pour marcher sur la pointe des pieds entre Andersen et Anne Sexton, pour se promener avec la petite sirène, les princesses chinoises, les danseuses, les marcheuses...des chaussures comme un héritage que l'on porte épinglé au fond de soi...

des chaussures qui oscillent entre l'idée de marcher et l'imposbiblité d'avancer....

 

SAM_7359

 

 

 

SAM_7362

 

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merci stéphanie !! <br /> <br /> baisers<br /> <br /> à tout bientôt...
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Tes créations me touchent toutes mais ces souliers rouges, particulièrement ! <br /> <br /> bises et à très bientôt j'imagine ;)
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