Stage

connectivities

Avec comme pour langage

rien qu'un battement aux cieux

Stéphane Mallarmé

2

What's written is always something else

And what's described is something else again

Between them lies the undescribed

which as soon as it's described

opens up new undescribed areas

It's undescribable

Even though darkness is described by light

and light by darkness

something's always left out.

And even if this something is "defined"

as razed gardens

behind iron fencing that grows

logic is always left

And even though the logic is not defined

but concealed beneath layers of gardens

painted from garden to garden

there's still a restlessness left

a despair

a pulse with no body

This is a criticism of the body

because it's a criticism of life.

Inger Christensen, It, Susanna Nied (trad.), Anne Carson (intr.), New Directions Books, 2006 (originalmente publicado em dinamarquês em 1969).