Dawn by Arthur Rimbaud read by Lori Gomez

Lori Gomez

I've been feeling very Rimbaudian lately. The translation is my own written in water, so I never did transcribe it, I just riffed it, though I suppose I can write it down if forced at gunpoint. The gifs and images I cobbled together are from myriad sources. The music is from William Basinski's Watermusic.  If you enjoy my readings and would like to support the channel, you can buy me a cup of coffee : https://buymeacoffee.com/lorigomez_apoetrychannel

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00:00Dawn by Artur Rambo

00:03I embraced the summer dawn.

00:08Nothing yet moved on the face of the palaces.

00:12The water lay dead.

00:16Crowds of shadows refused to leave the road to the woods.

00:21I walked, awakening the warm, brisk winds.

00:27And the stones looked on, and birds' wings soared in silence.

00:35The first venture on the path already full of fresh and pale glitterings

00:40was a flower who told me her name.

00:44I laughed at the white waterfall disheveled through the pine trees.

00:49At its silvery summit, I recognized the goddess.

00:53Then, one by one, I lifted her veils.

00:58In the path, waving my arms, in the open field where I betrayed her to the cock,

01:06in the city she fled amid the steeples and the domes,

01:10and running like a beggar on marble piers, I chased her.

01:15At the top of the road, near wood of laurels,

01:18I wrapped her in her mass of veils and felt a little of her immense body.

01:24Dawn and the child fell at the edge of the woods.

01:33When I awoke, it was noon.

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