ll pleut des yeux
ll pleut des yeux
Et les bouches regardent
Estomaquées
Les dents molles
La lèvre effarée
Le regard fixe
Le souffle court
Il pleut des yeux
Agrippés à un on ne sait quoi
Le vent vacille
De droit à gauche
L’air se répand, se reprend, repart
Le ciel est chaud,
Chargé,
Il pleut des yeux
Sarah Younan
It’s raining eyes
It’s raining eyes
And mouths stare
Stunned
Loose teeth
Frightened lips
Staring
Short breath
It’s raining eyes
Clinging to something I don’t know
The wind sways without direction
The air spreads, picks up, starts again,
The sky is hot
Heavy
It’s raining eyes
Sarah Younan
Sarah Younan is a french-lebanese journalist based in Paris. She works as a freelancer in different sectors such as tourism, tech and water issues. Besides this, she is working on writing a podcast and documentary project (not published yet) on mixed-race identities where she invokes the imaginary territories that create our internal cartography as an identity resource when we are crossed by several origins. You can find her articles in several French magazines such as Pays, Socialter, Capital, Soif.
Cover illustration titled “bloodletting” ( French “saignée”) by Sarah Younan