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Beau papillon près du sol [à l’attentive nature]1 montrant les enluminures de son livre de vol. Un autre se ferme au bord de la fleur qu’on respire : — ce n’est pas le moment de lire. Et tant d’autres encor, de menus bleus, s’éparpillent, flottants et voletants, comme de bleues brindilles d’une lettre d’amour au vent, d’une lettre déchirée qu’on était en train de faire pendant que la destinataire hésitait à l’entrée.
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Beautiful butterfly near the ground [to an attentive Nature]1 displaying the illuminations of its book of flight. Another closes up on the edge of the flower one is smelling: this is no time for reading. And so many others beside, tiny blues, scatter, floating and fluttering, like blue scraps from a love letter in the wind, from a torn-up letter that one was writing even as the addressee hesitated at the door.
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