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poems from the dome
These poems featured in a special meridian-line display at the Millennium Dome exhibition, Greenwich, UK.

Pour l'arriere-saison
by Gisèle Prassinos, 1920, France

Pour la parole matinale
et son goût musclé de naissance
même s'il se brise après la lumière
j'ouvrirais moi-même la fleur des poisons
où commence le derniere jour.

Indian Summer
by Gisèle Prassinos, 1920, France

For the speech of the early morning
and its muscular taste of rebirth
even if daylight arriving should choke it
I would open the flowers of poison unaided
and let the last day dawn.

translated by Peter Collier

dome poems