Patrick Dubost

You are going to think that I have strange ideas, maybe. I like this photo of poet Patrick Dubost whom I heard reading some of his poems last Thursday. I like the composition, the geometry, the colors, the light, the poet's right hand :-) and the lines he was declaiming in a very particular way, accompanied by a musician.

Actually this photo was not taken in Montpellier but in Lodève (40 minutes from Montpellier). I am cheating a little, again. Patrick Dubost was the poet I liked best at the festival of poetry called "Les Voix de la Méditerranée."

The other poets I heard were from foreign countries. They read some of their poems in their mother tongue and then somebody read a translation. That was rather boring. I think some poems should not be translated.

When people come to the médiathèque Emile Zola from the rue Poséidon (from where I took the two photos above), they can see the trees of the boulevard de l'aéroport through the glass walls of the médiathèque.

When they are before the wall, they can also see the people in the library. Moreover they can see the reflection of the cars and the signs in the rue Poséidon. Two streets which are perpendicular to each other seem to make up a single street. The grey car was not under the trees, but rather it was behind me when I took the first photo (landscape).

When I uploaded the photos to my computer, I realized that the people in the library do not appear on them. A mystery to me!