Category Archives: February 2017

Les cinq plumes de l’ange

 En descendant l'escalier  
 white marks on the glass   
 nightly posed in address.  
    
 Excluded from infinity   
 against space   
 vain forms of encounter   
 me font   
 extreme coldness   
 the pebbles of humility   
 stored in the box of secrets. 
     
 abandoned   
 and sign the route   
 in rainy weather   
 disheveled hair   
 make me angel feathers   
 through the porch   
 endless waiting.    
  
 Gather my tinsel   
 vêture divine   
 pour cacher ces blessures   
 I'm rebuffed   
 repressed, pixelated  
 out of transparent water   
 my only mirror. 
     
 I had done well   
 beautiful weddings were promised   
 my father would pick mushrooms   
 my mother would go around the church   
 my sisters in corsets dressed   
 would be the charm and the cure   
 on our carnival float.   
   
 Then came the verdict   
 shattered against the glass   
 the five feathers of the angel in reflection   
 marquant l'absorption par le néant   
 only the bottom of the pans remained   
 to scour for the expected dish   
 d'une l'enfance retrouvée.  

     ( photo by Caroline Nivelon ) 
 
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face look

   face look   
call to those who come from the sea
raise the capital of ourdied knowledge,
to the one who breaks the mirror
will give back
in their place
old music,
chilly chords
shadow and light,
from dawn to dusk,
barefoot on wet sand,
my soul so soon come,
already gone,
golden arabesque,
I reach out my hand to the wind of expectations,
my little man,
sweet grassland flower of childhood.



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in the forest of beautiful light

   Loose weeding   
stuck in the lock
in the vestibule of expectations
sweep away thoughts
without permissiveness.

long filaments
descending from the antlers
pendent last verbiage
the frills of excess
regurgitating childhood moments.

Sabir époumoné
against the wall of Thérèse's castles
the cries and bumps are gathered
at the stake
vain pleas.

in a thousand ways
ceremonial dress
swells before the storm
bubbles burst so soon
for obsolete protection.

frost point
just the novel of secret things
in front of eyes burned with Armenian paper
where to gird with light
late-comer nudity
this effort to share the necessary
this moment of doubt
in the hollow of escheat
this embodied journey of writing last.


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Clean ripples

 Clean ripples  
 minuet on the carpet of dreams  
 the organist weighs down his notes  
 dust lifting  
 lace accumulation  
 middle break-in  
 from these places  
 rattling offer  
 of a moment of doubt  
 sitting on the stone bench  
 set back from the arm of the sea.  

 I hesitate and pray  
 in a hybrid way  
 we conjugated  
 the use of words  
 with the passage of time  
 tender scratch  
 offered in derision  
 to the overwhelming experience  
 full and loose  
 between flesh and moss.  


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the shadows are us

   The shadows are us  
parents at the extremes
children in the middle.

And then molehills
a white blue sky
an outstretched hand
sharp index finger
that's where we're going
without a shadow of a doubt
if not us
the image makers
on the margins of a je ne sais quoi.

wise lines
muted colors
force from left to right
a hallelujah
with bare branches
of a sweet day .

By measured gradations
join beauty and zeal
of what grows on the edge of truth
of what is there
in the meridian moment.


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wise romp

   Remove the barrels from the forest     
clear the space of light
for limit crossed
leave the tree
erase our memories.
Advance at dusk
close to a night of audacity
accustomed
grope for the nave of prayers
rise in perfection.
Loaded with memories
on the sunbeam
on a vibrant morning
count the specks of dust
twirling in the half-open shutters.

Gambade
piano didgeridoo
honey melody
witch encounter
dance of bygone times
elves and trolls
mingling with ocean scents
spin the wind
over the horizon
the rain claps
animal scrabble
churns at night
failed orders
often the rebellion
things so long contained
creeping advance
between gorse and broom
the walls open
spin the wind
hollowing out space
spin the wind
chasing seeded bubbles
spin the wind
in its royal momentum
spin the wind
terminal rustle
spin the wind
before the great silence.


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Door to door with a sunbonnet

   She had put on her hat   
curtly
and took the door.

Since,
silence,
commemoration in times of crisis
small chip on the cup
the light bulb flashes
we are at the end of the line
I opened the bread drawer
cut myself a slice of bread
butter and cheese
way to pass the pill.

The clock strikes five o'clock
the day will appear only in three hours
take a book
until fatigue comes.

The stove still warm
in the dark
on which simmers leftover soup
a moth wakes up
to bump into the bulb.

She had put on her hat
curtly
and took the door.

On the big table
his collages
his thirty year life
his piled up sufferings
a look of a lost doe
an eye-popping landscape
I crumple it all
it wakes up the cat
waddling towards his croquettes.

Often
seems that the adventure
go through the break
that we cross without looking back
offered to the shivering night
ash animated by a breath.

Quickly,
close the door
the room cools down
put a log in the hearth.

She had put on her hat
curtly
and took the door.


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