Des Fleurs Pour Le Dire

Le Carre Hermes > Spring-Summer 2005

SAY IT WITH FLOWERS

Opened envelopes, from which there escapes a silence sprinkled with petals. So elegant a message! Such a hand, such syntax, such spelling! And what a novel of love! The love, as it were, of a father for his daughter. An impulse which is lost for words. A happiness no better accounted for than by this perfumed alphabet. Between two hearts there passes a current, light as a wave produced by the flutter of an eyelash. Delicate quiverings broaden out. Gentle ripples on the surface of the world.