Category Archives: Year 2017

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.  

 
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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.


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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 !   


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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.   


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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.

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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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Signer sa présence d’un silence

 Sail in white waters   
 spray with reason   
 wasteland. 
  
 stone to stone   
 climb the walls   
 of the House.  
 
 Follow the irrigating grass   
 against the crop garden   
 this paginated haven.   

 Dig the bottom of the field   
 and go up the earth   
 for more humus.   

 Denerve the wild paths   
 for free passage   
 se mouvoir entre taillis et buissons.   

 Resorting to children's babble   
 go back   
 in Wonderland. 
  
 Sit closer to the ground   
 inflate your lungs with a good smell   
 and look up to a trolling sky.  
 
 There on the way   
 the grandfather returns from a walk   
 hands crossed behind the back.  
 
 L'alouette  lulu 
 fixera un matin de fête   
 les lampées de brume.   

 Turns around in passing   
 the white form   
 of a close conniving friend.   

 can be counted on the fingers   
 the days after the sentence   
 de salissures énuméres.   

 Seeded with dreams   
 l'homme de poésie   
 signs his presence with a silence.   
 
Touch the cheek of a baby moon   
 at rest eyes wide open   
 sucking lips. 
  
 winter branch   
 by its glossy buds   
provoque le printemps.  
 
 And if laziness obliges   
 the stupid dew   
 reflects the beholder.   

 come   
 le grand-frère est arrivé   
 where to lay your head.   


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Le guerrier de l’ombre

 I am the shadow warrior   
 and the bitter wave won't make me break the oath.    

 Quant " Il " came and hit me from behind   
 la voie lactée s'enroula d'une écharpe dernière.

 I arouse   
 recurrent throat injury   
 the call over the canopy   
 in the wind of rainy nights   
 squatting   
 against the master tree.   

 I carry in my mouth   
 fresh bark water   
 strained ear   
 the ground of dead leaves   
 rustling faded memories.   

 Exhale the smells of the marsh   
 the red moon plays   
 de ses pupilles aiguisées    
 the dance of a clear sky gap   
 entre les draperies de la ramure   
 and the sooty clouds. 
  
 I wear the badge of power   
 on the shield of the obligated   
 to lose myself in fissile words   
 on the frozen orb   
 des songes rouges sangs. 

  
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Elle s’est enfuie du nid

 She ran away from the nest   
 the dawn of awakenings,   
 the moon in its turmoil.  
 
 Star layer   
 on the wooden platform   
 he showed the way.   

 Do not Cry   
 do not go   
 one look is enough.   

 The day begins    
 and her lips   
 set the sky on fire.   

 Hands reach out   
 the harness hurts the back   
 the feet sink into the clay.   

 Through the narrow door   
 access wounds   
 then go up the slope.  
 
 On leaving   
 more noise  
 nothing but the caress of the grass.

 Point a flame   
 between the shavings   
 of the fire of god.   

 escape   
 from the cave    
 lyrics and romance.   

 Lean   
 on the edge of the cliff   
 sunset creatures.   

 One by one   
 incise the board   
 passing bags.  
 
 Don't go up to the attic anymore   
 go through the corridor,   
 the wheat has arrived.  
 
 Orifices are poisoned,   
 crouched   
 marauding reason. 
  
 Fini,   
 we won't go to the woods anymore   
 cut juniper.   

 The straw pinions will fly away   
 past the time of scratches   
 sous le vent de planèze.   

 deposit   
 Laundry   
 in the wicker basket.  
 
 A bouquet of daisies, blueberries and poppies   
 on the curb,   
 the weather is stormy.  

 
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At 75 rue Saint-Charles

 Glue   
nose against the glass
waddling from one leg to the other
the child observes the mist
dont les fines gouttelettes
captent la lumière
live balloons
devenant coulures vibrantes
for accelerated
throw down.

winter is crying
dehors un froid sec
saisissant les jambes
despite the woolen socks
and the corduroy panties.

A last horse will pass
in the deserted street
ahanant
smoky nostrils
slamming the damp pavement
of his shoed hooves.

There's courage in the air
the top of the buildings caresses the mist
d'au dessus la rue principale
où ronfle quelques moteurs toussoteux.

Emergence of memories
inscribed under the skin
the semaphore child
see the lights
through the blisters of the sea.

there is sand
in the joints
du passage à niveau
obligeant au ralentissement
la bête humaine au loin
lâchant ses panaches de fumée.

I will hear the heavy convoy
pace on the short rails
un rythme glacé
grimant le tireté des nuages
à la queue leu-leu
parsemée des souriantes branches de lilas.

Mom, it is raining
the snow is falling
it hails.

That we are close to the stove.

Mice nibble the floor
sous la plaque de tôle de la Shell
water drops bead
on the ceiling on the pipe
it's condensation
Mom will pass the towel
nailed to the broomstick.

Christ will know
la couronne d'épines et le vinaigre
de ses yeux d'Aubrac
à faire tourner la bille bruyante
in the upturned iron lid.


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