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GLOBAL AFRICAN VOICES
Dominic Thomas, editor
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Wilfried N’Sondé
TRANSLATED BY KAREN LINDO
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Originally published in French as Fleur de béton
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To Anna-Maria C.
. . . you never say a word, sometimes the sound that you
make, is like animals crying.
LÉO FERRÉ
What if we were to take off together,
Toward a peace so tender and complete
And reappear from our ashes,
So beautiful, yet it makes me shiver!
SARTRE WILFRIED PARACLET JACKSIMON N’SONDÉ
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