She sleeps and rests on innocent sand.
Koumba Tam sleeps. A green palm veils the hair fever, copper forehead bends
closed eyelids, double cuts and sealed sources.
This growing end, the darker lip and great hurt.
– where is the smile of the accomplice woman?
The sunken face, the drawn chin sing a mute agreement.
Face of mask, closed to the ephemeral, without eyes, without matter.
Head of perfect bronze and patina of time.
Not touched by artificial colour, or wrinkles, or traces of tears and kisses.
O such face, as God created before the memory of the act.
Face of the dawn of the world, do not open as a tender neck to incite my flesh.
I adore you, o Beauty, of my monochord eye!
(Leopold Sedhar Senghor)
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