according to the elms

 This tile made of red hexagons .
This avenue of rustling trees of a rainy spring .
The staircase with the wrought iron railing .
This day under the door of the room which lets rise the bursts of voice coming from the dining room .
These windows with their old-fashioned fittings .
This poorly fixed wooden shutter that beats against the wall when a gust of wind rises .
Like the cupboard with its mirror glass from a time stored .

Be there
in the shadow of things in place
sitting in the smashed chair
webs of badly negotiated ideas enturbaning my thoughts
memories chanted by a small inner voice
I took my clicks and my slaps
picture box and moleskin notebook
to go on a pilgrimage to the scents of yesteryear .

Cold and rain changed the dark air in the middle of the afternoon
discrete passage to this state of listening allowing to be disposed
stone on which to build the city of brothers
Heavenly Jerusalem without her angels made visible
Jerusalem just existing to welcome the soul walker
in search of a probable detour towards the premonitory state of repentance
looking for breath and light to ride on
researcher returned to his task
the hoop of a then obsolete croquet game
before the mallet of emptiness
the promoter of desired encounters
those that availability without waiting allows to hatch
even during off-peak hours
as the crumpled song of rain and mixed colors rises from between the ash trees and the elms
in the bright and fragrant garden
phrasing of tears in spring
at the confluence of sound loads
of raging water scraping invisible pebbles
pots of giants .


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