Quand une femme [English translation]

When a woman

Gets up in the morning

Heats some water

Examines her hands

Gets out on the front

Of her cottage

Then perhaps she remembers

Unknown things

She had forgotten

Like a folded of paper

Under a small cushion

As soft as a loafer

Gets up in the morning

Heats some water

Looking in the distance

To know what the sky may bring

If it will rain tomorrow

These are unknown things

She had forgotten

Like a folded paper

As soft as a pillow

That one, that very one

On which so long ago

Someone had written

The end of this poem

Of this story

Lets water run down

Along the small of her back

Along her spine

And then she remembers

Like a folded paper

Under a small cushion

As soft as a loafer

Those unknown things

She had forgotten

Like a folded paper

Under a small cushion

Those unknown things

She had forgotten

An enamelled saucer

Lit up by a ray of sunlight

• Artist:Gérard Manset
• Album:Manitoba ne répond plus (2008)