The form of his member was more or less clear depending on his mobile and capricious bending movements; he was showing more and more of this intimate receptacle. The black shadow, curly, was growing, undulating, independent of the whiteness that surrounded it, that interrogated it.
Finally, little by little, in small movements, almost as if oiled, his briefs fell down, were set free from his crotch and his thighs and, when this Adonis finally revealed his member, when it was finally in the open, free, offered up to me, directed by the light, when he opened his legs while bending backwards, his arms and the tips of his fingers reaching to the floor, ready to take off for a supreme flight, I realized that I wanted him.

art work by Yukiko Suto
*(p3) Allusion to a famous poem by Paul Verlaine which begins:" Je fais souvent ce rêve étrange et pénétrant/d'une femme inconnue,et que j'aime et qui m'aime/Et qui n' est, chaque fois,ni tout à fait la même/ni tout à fait une autre et m'aime et me comprend"
In English: "I often have this strange and penetrating dream / of an unknown woman, that I love, and who loves me / And who, each time I dream, is never exactly the same / Nor completely different, and who loves and understands me."


The Virgin and the Shadow ( Le Sacre de la Vestale)
excerpt from French original “Failles”, short stories, Editions Lacombe, 1989. – Paris
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