Category Archives: August 2019

L’œil en écueil d’être

 Like the pitfall eye of being   
trace where to become
what is already there
in itself
so far
with senseless shores
of this simplicity
where to be
so small
connected to the depths of the universe
by the operculum
separation from the world
we who are the world
pending.

To move
to feel
to feel
the mark of evolution
on the fat of propriety
to let escape
in the notch
the laughter of encounters
overall
at the vigil
of our death
of our birth.

How beautiful the world is
aux moindres anfractuosités
that the silence spells
par la soif des ridules
on the huge lake
primordial waters
passing though
that the hand erases
sitôt gestation aboutie.

Stay
don't be stonewalled
des veines figées
know how to take the threads of light
in good company
at random from the lashings
carène du terme échu
rising from the abyss
au saut du vol à voile
draped in the laughing stock of the spray
closed knife
vintage ploughshare
self-awakening.


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jody the fawn

   Jody the Fawn   
three small turns and then go away
clear notes
Glenn Gould's piano masterpiece
in a circle on the clay staff
among the puddles after the storm
this freshness that wins you over
out of the barn
to jump with both feet
point of romance
just smile ear to ear.

Waiting for the dogs to bare their fangs
and yelp in disorder
under the evening antiphon
sewing the piece of fabric
a tablecloth
a sheet
to cover the board on its trestles
add mismatched chairs
go to the prado
pick the flowers for the table.

At any age
cleaning done
put away the brooms
let's be the perfect
squires in patched clothes
under the postern
help get the day off
through the fields
mixed poppies and blueberries.

Let's put the community back
to the pegs of the past
let's be obligated to the light.


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Passage where everything passes

 From his hand   
 high placed   
 at the crossroads of trees   
 the sons of the virgin   
 were leading the way   
 and great silence   
 dew droplets   
 and light   
 at cockcrow   
 that the torrent accompanied   
 of his cart    
 water and mixed pebbles.    
  
 Open the window   
 for morning to come   
 my soul   
 messenger called   
 and now so close    
 under the adornment of the mists   
 brightly colored canopy   
 where the banners flap   
 of the great gathering   
 passage where everything passes   
 and surpasses us   
 as the day dawns.    

  
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jano the beefy

   JANO the beefy   
overturned the table
the bugger in his irascibility
and the candle that was there
and the banality of the evening
the guests left
tottering in scattered order
hat in hand.

JANO the child
placed on a chair that has remained standing
eyes glued to the chandelier
two big even eyes
for a glass pipette
that the cat carelessly
was trying to capture
like the funfair mickey
JANO pestait.

The day had to come
compassionate
excessively dazzling
so that in every corner of the palace
gushes inoculated wealth
blinding light
to bend the dendrites
off cell source.


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the lapping of sweet words

   The splash of sweet words   
sow the hand of the simple.
sheep's wool
against barbed wire spikes
sign the wind.
From one daydream to another
the memories are tangled
according to the torrent.
There is no truce
crossed the ford
than the jaws of oblivion.

My friend nothingness
broke the moorings
and vogue trots menu
among the stardust
that we pick up
the evening
when clouds and moon
return to battle.

There is no future
that in the service of the world
when the rain falls
for that rainbow of desires
to be true to one's soul.


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