Childhood memories
Jean Wiéner
In the night a rose
moves forward, all the lights off,
If something happened
It would wait until morning
Your mother paints the nuts gold
For your Christmas tree
Shoes on the edge of dawn
They tame the sky
Before, the treasured childhood
Travelled lighting up
Liverpools of fairies
Splendid to look at
A mosquito net
Like snow, you die there,
Especially if the star burns
The wings of the chimney sweep.