Jardin des délices [English translation]

...

When the world around you will have changed so much

that all these things you brushed past harmlessly

will have become so hard to move

will have become foreign objects.

Where did we stow

this patch of orchard

with its climbing flowers,

its sloping, pale

pink light?

When the world around you will become muddled,

when the sheets in your room wil stay in shadows

as the night sets in orange and purple

and you might have nothing else to protect you

Where did we stow

this patch of orchard

with its wisteria,

like a root plunging

into the earth.

Garden of delights

is spinning like a screw

in the back of my1 skull

It spins like a screw.

1. using undefined articles is a common manierism of Manset's

• Artist:Gérard Manset