'Living Words', Siham Benchekroun

Traduction littéraire pour la revue Asymptote

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Crystalline. Cristallin. Cri: cry. A crystalline laugh. Listen to this.

Something that tolls, isn’t it?

The sound of a very fine, slender glass.

Cristallin.

I believe it to be white, and radiant.

Liquid.

But the liquid from a singing spring.

Yes, that’s it: a water-word.

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