Category Archives: Year 2017

Ephemeral layer

 Escalator   
 window weights   
 the out of time is reflected   
 tremors.   

 Ephemeral layer     
 joined thoughts   
 orthogonal order   
 unfurled fragrances   
 list the steps   
 access to the antiphon   
 shouted by the angels   
 strapped refuge    
 crevices of oblivion   
 the chains scrape the ground   
 ad hominem excesses.

 A song   
 and then nothing   
 just the sweat   
 oxen at work. 

  
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friend of the abyssal streams

   Friend of the Abyssal Streams   
leapfrog
of life in the heart
do you want to become
a voice among voices
you who are much more than you
you who are metamorphosis
in the reticular pulp
that the hand crushes
to become tomorrow.

Let's cross the ford
full and loose
let's become blood and sense
blood horse
from the wave to the ocean
in the grip of desires
that the wind makes acts
rootlets of a vernacular painting
meeting at the touch of the day
that the seeker abjures and rebukes
from father to son
girl of the times
be faithfully ardent
on the formant of memory.


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( painting by Frederique Lemarchand )

edge of words

 edge of words   
 at the underground gates   
 weary scents   
 que le vent porte   
 sage renaissance   
 childhood sounds   
 darling presence   
 cherries in spring   
 that the dent croque   
 mittens in pockets   
 of our future   
 under the shade of the plane trees    
 on the cathedral square   
 the bite of the cold   
 atteignant le tréfonds de l'âme   
 gracefully   
 among the grasses   
 a breath on your hand   
 in descent of the sun   
 as in passing. 

  
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voice from between the pebbles

   Voice from between the pebbles   
taken early
a pinch of honey
on the breath of the May wind.

Big woman
thin-legged
posed as an asymptote
against the heart in unison.

Single presentiment
short straws
gathered on the sly
in the hollow of the weary waves.

guitar arpeggios
accompanied by a suspicion
emblazoned colors
the pavilion of meetings.

Abundant
purpurines lips
from my friend from the woods
raise their voices from among the voices.

All sails out
towards the quivering
of a spring
buoyed by the breeze.


343

Jean and Francois

   If elsewhere   
and intimate
at fingertips
come and die
The country that resembles you
under the consumed spasm
Jean
my friend of the Spirit
my cross
my cry.

On the ground
in the dust
the star reflects
the mysterious song
on the run
across the worlds.

François
my friend of the hoodlums
my way
my deliverance.


342

Together it can be

 Silence of plants~   
 on the white blue sidelines of a train   
 that the wind blows.   
              *
 Stuck on a hill   
 the domino of houses   
 ~ devil bugs.   
              *
 Pass the black bird   
 in the scent of the clouds   
 ~ portico at the top.   
              *
 The magpie's nest   
 in reserve rectangular   
 ~ source of spite.   
              *
 Bras serpentiforme ~   
 snap spring tears   
 out of words.   
              *
 Scaled hands   
 on the span of the balcony   
 ~ the day unfolds.   
              *
 My soul rules   
 dig life and tell me   
 ~ calm and gentle typing.   
              *
 pass left right   
 morning cars   
 ~ boarding for Kythera.   
              *
 On the green coast   
 a yellow truck climbing   
 ~ sudden clamor.   
              *
 Stripping of the tiled roof   
 ~ file the one from elsewhere   
 the short straw.   
              *
 Zinc at the base   
 dirty brick fireplace   
 ~ scheduling.   
              *
 From notebook to book   
 the rubber dries and drifts   
 ~ cold assembly.   
              *
 The refusal of the other   
 is self-hatred   
 ~ together it may be.   


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Visage visage au touché de nos cœurs

 face face   
to the touch of our hearts
within reach of the ash tree
without gesture or word
high gaze
standby sums
On the photos
serious and sad
to jump from the top of the tree
fire hummingbird
passacaglia of the mists
showing veinlets with one hand
to decipher in the evening by candlelight
yellowed identity papers
that the wind scatters
before our sleepless eyes.

O face
unique face of passing time
dazzled infanta
be the receptacle of our tears
the salt of our meeting
from stick to thistle
from Job to gray
to growl
in front of the dung
mingling with basalt pebbles
glowing mixture
Virginia creeper
and the red wall
oh face
that a lack of spirit erases
flat stone laid in the morning
on the garden wall
mixed breaths
face to face for all eternity.


340

Es-tu là mon âme ?

 
Are you here
glissando without evasion
to carry me on the gentle wave
moon interview in the parlor
bark torn from the cork oak
weaving through the slow crowd
dazzled passenger
fragrant scents.

My soul
only
randomly on an outing
saw himself taken
in the flood of migrants
oh my soul
otherness is another identity
from the other to oneself
the very source of solidarity.

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