Handkerchiefs Waving

"Brise Marine" in Stéphane Mallarmé: Selected Poetry and Prose is beautifully translated by Peter and Mary Ann Caws.

Croit encore à l'adieu suprême des mouchoirs!

is rendered most delicately as

Has faith still in great fluttering farewells!

So very felicitous.

And so for day 650
23.09.2008