#577 Sentimental Colloquy (1946)

Dans le vieux parc solitaire et glacé, 
Deux formes ont tout à l’heure passé.
Paul Verlaine: Le Colloque Sentimental
Cloaks keep the bilboquets
warm. The gouache is oblique,
which means no light passes

through, which means it makes
it seem even colder. Even in
death, even depicted as andro-

gynous, they can still be recog-
nized as lovers. It is those blue 
eyes that give that fact away.