Aux Essarts  
montrerons    
les visages de Frédérique   
pour que le merle émette   
les trilles de notre Rencontre.      
 
Has clarity
Day and night
auguring surprise
there will be great fear
the third providence.      
 
wood ! wood !   
for Madame's fireplace
to forge the iron of the great letters
the landlady's cheeks
will have beautiful incarnate.      
 
Don't come home too late
a cat might pop up
and wake us up
before the corridor opens
on enjoined body and soul.      
 
strange way
to embellish the sweat of passers-by
wicker fiber
posed proudly at the narthex
mysteries to solve.      
 
 
1065

Welcomes
in menu display
erect muzzle
the white bovid
at the foot of the mountain
covered with her sacrificial adornment
conducive to the song of the hoopoe.      
 
There lies
the object of the Vision
outside the flute of the vertebrae
putting down his wooden shoes
on the railroad
overconfidence of instinct
sparingly sprinkled with rosemary.      
 
And yes
not the slightest trace
if not the ragworts of buried crooks
in the heavy earth
traveled by the crusades of the past
that we had seen pass
from the top of the window.      
 

1064

Le Gracieux   
Du banc de pierre   
Romantique à souhait
D'avoir descellé la perle   
Lucane volant   
Butant contre la murette   
Sans éclat   
Hors cette ordalie   
À même le sentier   
D'avoir porté secours à l'insecte   
Verrue stellaire   
Ecarquillant ses yeux noirs   
En retour de Sirius   
Elle apportait à Madeleine   
Les œufs et le lard   
Bien tard au soir venant   
Alors que frémissait   
Dans l'ombre déployée   
Le ululement de la chouette   
Porté en catimini   
Par les orgues de  la basilique   
En présence du prêtre blanc   
Comme si de terre   
Allait sortir   
La larve    
Singulière métamorphose   
De l'autre côté du monde   
Sur la touche bleue nuit   
D'une somnolence        
Par laquelle   
Démêler l'écheveau   
Pour se reconnaître   
Batteur de tâches de rousseur.

  
1063

As long as the flood persists
in felucca stretched canvas
the reeds bowing in the wind
soon we will understand
than these little moth holes
dotting the canopy
were the incidental benefits
of our time on earth.      
 
Wire to wire
along the coast
arrived by chance and left late
we pasted the receipt of our past acts
on the mooring board
from Sarah to Mary
the landladies of Barbados
being jointly compelled to bail out
those mousey years.      
 
Point de salut   
pour qui s'exhalent   
le long des rives bruissantes   
ces parfums du désert   
alors que hautes terres se précisant   
et qu'à même l'enclos abordé    
mille maux aggraveront l'ordre    
des bifurcations assumées   
et tout ça pour se taire.      
 
 
1062

Godmother
Marie-Fernande dropped off for a moment
on flat tiled roofs
you indicated to me
by the cooing of doves.      
 
Gouttes de sang sur le cou de la Vierge   
cordelette laissée pendante   
au creux de la nuit   
vous fûtes lunaison de printemps   
au temps de l'éclosion.      
 
Mixing the cry of the birds
in the cool of the morning
quite clever by the way
were the soldiers of their iron shoes
going up to the basilica.      
 
Coming from the west
scratching with its mandibles
the blue of your eyes
you were rebellious and capital
to the adjoining cloister.      
 
Dwarf in the rain
the shadow receding
absurd and melancholy
you were the knights
with a hard spear.      
 
Hairy potbellied buttock
at the rise of my hands
chattering teeth
you were silver apple
before the walls of excess.      
 
Joining the ax
with cut gorse
green dress and fresh cheeks
you were welcoming doline
for day entry.      
 
Set with precious stones
bells in graceful flights
to descend into wisteria
was the time   
to erase remorse and torment.      
 
Know thyself
and we will know the world
while walking small trot
on the catwalk with naked bodies
reflection of the dusting of stars.      
 
 
1061

Didn't you come so soon
you the heartbreak of lost opportunities
to contemplate through the skylight
these last glimmers   
those of our bygone years     
to consume
consume
through the menu.   
 
There were two worlds
around the edge of the device
that of the living and that of the dead
whose border
was chasing the discomfort of a bottleneck
quick to engender
the poetic moment
both flesh and dust.      
 
Import images
combine reality
is common
within the inflections
for a moment our bread
strong and beautiful
like three coins
scaring the Tombelaine dragon.      
 
Murmures   
à deux   
coulent le visible et l'invisible   
comme paupières du temps qui passe   
garde-barrière se levant   
pour laisser le camion de la raison   
baigner joyeusement le Sens   
d'un horizon disparu.      
 
forever black
will accompany the embers of life
eternal sound of crumpled paper
illuminating vision and thought
in the lining of a jacket
threadbare biblical word
in front of wet eyes
of the little girl my missing sister.      
 
A cru   
franchissant la barrière   
une odeur   
une main   
affirmeront haut et court   
la lueur du jour nouveau   
en décalcomanie    
sur le mur de notre enceinte.      
 

1060

Push the tree to the fall
 
And the tree began to smile
 
~Underground Was Laughter      
 
 
( painting by Michel Bole Du Chomont )


1059

Just a patch of grass
in the daffodil meadow
to lay the ashes
in the shadow of the clouds
space travelers
spinning towards their end
or their swelling
according to fate.      
 
Pour rien au monde   
je n'aurai évacué l'envie   
de me poser là   
assis sur une pierre   
pour pâté saucisson chips et fromages   
accompagner le pain et le vin des occurence.      
 
Assis vous dis-je   
rien que pour l'odeur des fleurs   
noces sur terre   
noces dans le ciel   
pour un programme des festivités sur mesure   
à gauche pour la promenade au Jardin   
un fragment du ciel descendu sur terre   
à droite pour prolonger la vision entrevue de l'Au-delà   
bouquet feuillu de ciel et de terre conjugués.      
 
L'Aigle atteint sa dimension royale   
par la puissance de son vol   
il a rejoint l'Arbre mystique   
pour affirmer le véritable couple   
cette fin de la souffrance   
ce règne de l'entité cosmique.      
 

1058

That had not reached this hour
the children of the dawn
chanting a few nursery rhymes
at sunrise in the summer
in silence and stillness.      
 
Before Light appears
the birds had sung
to be silent Light came.      
 
Quant au vent   
le vent du matin   
se tenant coit aux premières lueurs   
il avait frisé le feuillage   
dès le jour apparu.      
 
The beeches of the square
began to dance
so gently
than the cross of the dead
exhaled the perfume of suroîte.      
 
It was as if
to have crossed the burns of time
caused small tears
in the wall of casualness.      
 
A marche forcée   
pour vaincre nos peurs      
le chat aux bottes de sept  lieues
s'enquit de donner vie
à la remise à jour.       


1057
 

Mandrake had heart
without sausages coming
gnaw near the kennel
the bones of the creamer.      
 
End of cycle memory
humble and properly Frenchified
flared out attachments
the fresh and plump pansies.      
 
To hear you
decided to procreate
the faces of Serverette
waiting for the moment
offered the desire
and the celebrant's shroud
without being allowed to barguigner.      
 
Vivre intensément   
l'aboutissement du plaisir   
aux allures de stress iconique   
occasionne la stupeur   
de voir émerger en fin de lignage   
le licol détendu   
par le plus offrant des amants.      
 
 
1056