To make money, a living and to relax
into dialect, the accents of sweetness.

After amassing a com-
fortable living, gang-
sters came to collect
Claude's gambling
debts. Her refusal
enraged them. They
ransacked, then
burned her house. She
fled with Henri to
Nicole's coastal villa.

After seeing Daniel,

the first time, she fin-
gers the green buds of
the chinaberry tree.
Their hard roundness
feels like her nipples
when erect.

The fire on the river-
bank was a pure fire,
a cleansing fire that
danced-

In the fire that started
along the baseboards,
she lost all her be-
longings.

The amassed fortune,
the amassed living, the
amassed power in
the thighs, the neck.

The air blew softly
over her softly.

When Daniel takes her

to the river, he dips her
in the water. From the
bank, he digs up the
roots of a hazelnut
shrub. He rubs the cut
roots over her naked

body. The smell of
cinnamon repels all
insects. He spends the
night on one side of
a hill, she spends the
night on-

Feeling protected is a vague, pleasant
memory. To have only the green-
ness of grass between you and desire

To make money, a living and to relax into dialect, the accents of sweetness.

Feeling protected is a vague, pleasant memory. To have only the green- ness of grass between you and desire

To make money, a living and to relax
into dialect, the accents of sweetness.

Feeling protected is a vague, pleasant
memory. To have only the green-
ness of grass between you and desire