All posts by Gael GERARD

eternal reality

 Must time implode   
and serve the earth
de ses histoires fourchues.

Should the wound
forever fester
when life shrinks.

Go along your path
man without horizon
that fear subjugates.

pass the hand
through the crack of secrecy
that another hand will grasp.

Don't postpone your dreams
in Lent to be
random collusion.

Évoque l'arbre pliant dans l'orage
in rhythm under the gust
to make the soul of the wind his own.

Écarte les chemises du printemps
under the sweetness of cherry blossoms
counting foraging bees.

Be the sword of fire
roaming the hunting ground
des phrases incises.

Sois l'épousée
of eternal reality
dans sa transcendance fleurie.

Be the salt and myrrh
sous l'eucalyptus frissonnant
qu'anime les eaux de Tibériade.


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this morning i died

 This morning I died   
and cannot conceive my life
like gone.

Memories no longer weigh
time has no clock
the snow is slack
the birds sing the silence
I don't walk anymore
I don't fly anymore
and don't know if the slightest thing is done.

Can I sleep then
without vigilance
of a permanent sleep
in indifference
of a naturally supernatural state.

Can I return to the places of my birth
sans effort
as ball unravels
wire to wire
Centimeter by centimeter
the fittings of the mind jump
for one more step
no longer touch the ground
barefoot
useless butterfly hands
without the smile operating
directly from the redcurrant drippings
against the wall of oblivion.

It was a moment
without night appearing
a moment of dry lips
in front of the envelope to be glued
missive occurred.

I could then carry in the ground
the caress of beinge
and give birth.


392

His eyes wide open

  She gliding   
 of his open eyes   
 caressed the hills and valleys.   

 She washed   
 of her tears the continents   
 to overflow the oceans.   

 She walked on the shards of time   
 sudden collapse   
 from black hole to black hole.   

 She shook the clouds and the tides   
 at the four cardinal points   
 of the holy covenant.   
 
 She caresses the stars   
 in the solar wind of an excess of light   
 without the shadow penetrating it.   

 She is visited by bodies   
 gas rocks and wind   
 to die and be reborn.   

 She refreshes with an ounce of chance   
 the impulses of the first cause   
 very essence of man.   

 She is the wise anchor   
 of the existing and the supernatural   
 dance and passage of a sensible silence.  
 
 She's balls and spins   
 eclipsing itself   
 path to the mysterious end.  
 
 No ear hears it   
 drapery with luminous openwork   
 enshrined in his offering.   

 Land oh my land   
 mother earth is beautiful   
 land oh my land.   


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Shadow Caress

 So small the hands of Mary   
 that the organ emits the song of the birds   
 chirping from between the sails   
 from the rise towards dawn.   

 On the musician donkey   
 I measured with my gaze   
 the distance from me to self   
 a flick of eternity.   

 Of skulls in the sand   
 point   
 obsidian on the other hand   
 complaining about orders left there.  
 
 Black skin and white foam   
 in the window frame   
 smoke rises   
 sweet and annoying.   

 They are beautiful and good   
 songs of being   
 open skins of the children of Emmaus   
 free from anguish and nothingness.  
 
 shadow caress   
 on the grill of the sun   
 of a quest dances love   
 accordingly.   


389

These hands that look like nothing

 These hands that look like nothing   
 not even at the wound closing.   

 This doorway crossed   
 to breathe harder.   

 That gaze so distant   
 without lifting the veil   
 there against the shoulder   
 framing sad days   
 contemplating Sylvain's charcoals    
 income afloat   
 court-bouillon nausea   
 memory cockroaches   
 spitting out their droppings   
 to the rhythm of a cigarette. 
  
 The window was open   
 the seagulls circled   
 the wind sucked the marrow from the bones   
 one last time   
 draw water from the well of the Old   
 a noise behind the door   
 I knew he wouldn't come   
 chewed up in the vertigo of oblivion   
 wind in the alleys   
 to gore the devil   
 et s'y mirer   
 soft foam   
 in the silt of fertile days   
 a candle in the front   
 a lantern in the back.  

 
388

before the salt eats you

   To build   
so as not to have to become.

Ignore daily bites
for more lightness in elevation.

Know how to collect the rest of the failures
in a process of consciousness.

To be the wolf on the edge
and pretend to ignore the barbed wire of the Great Plains.
Open eyes wide
in front of the expansion of the west wind.

At dawn parting with the moon evidence
to walk towards the light.

Save the candle
without burning the pyre of memories.

Sacralize inner myopia
in the crumpled linen of nights of withdrawal.

Know how to turn the wheel
to spread the sand.

Get up again and again
despite the wounds of childhood.

Become a perforated pearl
before the salt eats you.


386

Assert his arrival

 A night of tenderness   
 elk sprayed   
 autumn leaves   
 orchestrate the fallout on earth.  
 
 Noise in the washing machine   
 an inadvertent key   
 left in the pocket   
 an oversight to say the least.   

 At the level   
 sit down   
 and then nothing    
 a ray of sunshine through the louvered shutter.   

 Leaving slowly   
 fluttering in the wind   
 without resentment   
 just a carnation between the teeth.   

 Assert his arrival   
 on the hard stone of the entrance   
 under the window bars   
 Oh Grandmother !   


 387

Au temps des arbres perdus

 Was, perdus   
 Dans la frilosité des avancées technologiques   
 Coups de gueule contre le mur des incompréhensions   
 Se lient et se délient   
 Les bonnes raisons   
 Au sens giratoire d'un consumérisme béat.  
 
 Striking with a zest of the hoof   
 Le condominium des afflictions   
 L'homme de bure   
 En ses vérités surannées   
 Devient Don Quichotte   
 Derrière le miroir des lamentations.   

 Climb orchestra pits   
 L'appel des repris de justice,   
 Vêtus d'hardes spectrales,   
 Corps éventrées,   
 Rigueur ajoutée,   
 Harnachés d'obsolescence programmée. 
  
 Unpinned Cellulose   
 En effraction d'un ordre dispersé   
 Le temps appelle le temps   
 Au creux d'un nid de coucou   
 La vase refluante   
 Colmatant les brèches de l'oubli   
 S'enquière d'une halte secourable.  

 Come from who knows where   
 Dans un faisceau de lumière   
 Les mains ouvragères   
 Aux doigts grêlés de piqûres   
 Ronde enivrante      
 Le regard baissé   
 Rassemblant les myriades d'âmes errantes   
 Autour d'un chant psalmodié   
 Que le tissage expose.   


385

Le mont de la journée

Was, perdus

dans la frilosité des avancées technological
getting mad
against the wall
misunderstandings

bind and unbind them
good reasons

in the roundabout direction of a
blissful consumerism

striking with a zest of Understand

the condominium of afflictions
l’homme de bure in its outdated truths

becomes Don Quixote
behind the mirror lamentations.

Rise from the pits orchestra
the call of the recoveries of justice,
dressed in clothes spectral,
disembowelled bodies,

added rigor,

harnessed with obsolescence scheduled.

Unpinned Cellulose
breaking an order scattered
time calls temps
in the hollow of a nest cuckoo
to refluxing vessels plugging the gaps oblivion
inquire about a stopover helpful.

Come from no one knows d’or
in a bundle of light
working hands with pitted fingers of bites
intoxicating round the look down

gathering the myriads of souls wanderers

around a song psalmody

that the weave exposes.

384

Si sensible

 All so sensitive   
 autumn maple leaf   
 red at first sight   
 fall on the ground   
 fleurant bon la cigogne   
 qu'un air de fête accompagnât   
 in its flight.   

 A soul appears   
 in a bouquet of silky efforts    
 au soleil naissant de tendres accolades.  

 Haut les cœurs    
 caressing to be   
 punctuated by a shower of stars   
 was rolled down the slope   
 the wheel of life   
 down to the stream   
 scattered memories   
 pink lifted lips   
 towards the nave of our eyes   
 de tant d'étoiles éclose.

   
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