Effet de nuit [English translation]

Night. Rain. A wan sky shredded by the

spires and openwork towers of a lacklustre

gothic city outline in the grey distance.

Plain. Gallows ripe with stunted hangmen

shaken by greedy crow beaks,

dancing uncanny jigs in the dark air

as wolves feast on their feet.

A few scattered thorny bushes and hollies

raising their horrid foliage here and there

over the sooty tangle of a sketchy backdrop.

And then, around three pallid barefooted

prisoners, a squad of high halberdiers

marching, their straight blades like harrow spikes

glistening against piercing lances of rain.

• Artist:Les Discrets
• Album:Septembre et ses dernières pensées