A poem by Tahar Djaouat…
…because the sun on the sea today made me think of him & Jean Sénac:
Tahar Djaouat
Sénac still present
This rust inside me
the sun revives.Obsessional smell
of the wave
on my eyeTerrace
where interminably a
telluric laughter unfurlsLaughter of an Algerian girl
(Jean, look
how the suns commingle
and the praying wave
caresses the stirrupsFissures — butterfly elytra —
in the acrobat azureAnd marrying the sea
—immense—
your wheat field beard
translation from French by P.J.