Madeleine
Madeleine, La Garde-Freinet, France 2013.
Madeleine
Madeleine loves to play, even in the fig tree; it’s a plum job for a born comedian. Playing peek-a-boo with its leaves, now you can see me, now you can’t. SNAP – seen but not caught, shoulda been quicker! The image is imprinted on my cortex, but not in my reflex. Madeleine’s just quick as a wink. Me? Turned into a lil billy goat by this tigress. But the fig tree came to my rescue ; while she was mocking me, its tiny bugs devoured her. Her need to scratch that itch remains, worse than any Graton itching powder ever obtained.
