Category Archives: Year 2021

The street

 
 
 Of expired cream    
 at the bottom of a cardboard pot    
 he made his meal    
 like a hesitant fly    
 on the windowsill.        
  
 The wooden bench was dirty    
 a newspaper will do    
 to ask    
 in his grime-hardened mantle    
 under a light rain.        
  
 Then get up staggering    
 for along the sidewalk    
 wobble a few steps    
 towards the alley of straight trees    
 with serrated leaves.        
  
 there are days     
 where the thick cloud    
 hesitates to break through in the face of misery    
 where we were pushed    
 in the alley of the dead.        
  
 Baggage, point    
 a good raincoat, point    
 closed shoes, point    
 woolen gloves, point    
 a hint of a smile, point.        
  
 Hirsute, disheveled hair    
 he went from street to street    
 sit at the foot of a building    
 between two canine shits    
 clutching her black shopping bag.        
  
 On the piece of paper he had to see a doctor    
 but he forgot    
 and the social worker    
 ditto
 a large gray cat quietly passed by.        
  
 In the setting sun    
 had to find the place    
 to slouch maybe lie down    
 in the constant noise of traffic    
 which would diminish.        
  
 He knew the area    
 since the time he wandered    
 the man of our time    
 within sight    
 that we could offer him.        
  
 He had a viaticum    
 a stuffed animal with gnawed ears    
 by the dog that had accompanied him    
 some hot weather    
 and polar cold, successively.        
  
  
 741 

Un avenir initié

 


To look behind
the veranda of the customary shelter
memory flowers sting
le chaume des champs.

No matter what the weather
lights turn orange
élargissant le présent
out of past and future.

There's electricity in the air
between the pylons of the dam
qui ne prêtent pas à rire
juste à friser les poils sur les bras.

Neurons sink into the flesh
it is cold
the joints seize up
the cart creaks.

On expiration
keep some air
allows the ascent
to the pastures above.

A trop fendre la bûche
the splinter of wood jumps dry
on the wet ground
par l'orage de la force pure.

there are days like this
where from the bottom of the earth
rise the reflections of our entrails,
dry grapeshot on the flat plain.

Lower right
against the embankment
la pierre plate des origines enlevée
without extreme sycophancy.

Rising from the chest
the organ burst the vault
of its thick trumpeting
raising the dust.

Had to keep up appearances
sneak out of the confessional
to scroll banner in the wind
on the churchyard.

A dove crosses the sky
then a second
the pair form
sous le dais du printemps.

Decorate with twigs
the entrance to the temple
be the bread and the wine
d'un avenir initié.


740

De long en large

 
 
 Rising up and down
 on the wood panel
 the fences of the soul
 avaient fière allure.
  
 Wild flowers grew there
 bareback like our joyous laughter
 pigmenting our instincts
 des gouttes de sang sur la pierre blanche.
  
 Finger on the trigger
 by correcting the target
 the heraldic lesson
 prenait corps contre le frêne.
  
 In the morning
 on this random slate
 formed islands and peninsulas
 à petits jets de vapeur humidifiante.
  
 To tender tears
 on the cheek of repentance
 answered ash fever
 sous les crocs de l'absence.
  
 Oedipal caress
 on the transverse flute
 the momentum was serious
 un deux trois soleil.
  
 Mixing shadows and light
 at the victorious prow
 where life is earned
 s'engagèrent des nuits sans sommeil.
  
 For the pruned candle
 ban from our prisons
 le lingot d'or
 des ténacités événementielles.
  
 Came right up against me
 the appearance of simple things
 this thought of fever :   
 what was said about me ?        
  
 Featured, both, at the three
 the sun again
 allowing me the perfect escape
 dans les halliers de la forêt.
  
 Shared stories, acquired opinions
 we were able to join our household
 in a circle under the palaver tree
 échanger le thym et la lavande.
  
 There was there
 so much tenderness and frankness
 that each word gorged with orgeat
 clochetait aux pinacles de la mémoire.
  
  
  
 739
   

He had descended from his perch

 

He had descended from his perch
lean and beetle
to cause a stir
on metal boards
it looked like a pink chime
listing the hours
quickly done well done
matter of making you thirsty
if necessary to take the stage.

Flamenco lasted so long
only tap dances and castanets
tear apart their magnetic knowledge
to metonymic offers
à cru et à dia
women's eyes
compelled to consent to fury
of oculi out of their sockets
without the beast looking gray.

During that time
the grain was hoarded
by torchlight
scratching with their tremolos
the workers' lofts with the hoppers deposited
without the screaming dagger
does not satisfy the nasty poet
that border assignment
made sensitive to the mercy of the wind.



738

Riding his bag

 

 Riding his bag    
 filled with trouble and fury    
 the man of the caudine pitchforks    
 fell in love with the day that is dawning.        
  
 The place is unstable    
 death row    
 circumspect jet sample    
 the honey of the last risings.        
  
 To maintain the lower jaw    
 clawed pochard    
 worsen the situation    
 outside the curvature of time.        
  
 Do not move    
 addiction monster    
 be the continuation of childhood crickets    
 lower the need for voluptuousness by a notch.        
  
 By vociferating the name of delights    
 dewclaws are pain    
 watertight walls of withdrawal    
 foraged meadows without flowers for no reason.        
  
 No smiles under this screed    
 the hands suggest the origins collar    
 the sun crumbles its secrets    
 it's time to get up early.        
  
  
 737 

Water so sweet

 

 Water so sweet    
 to purify the arm of the assassins    
 so that the Holy Chrism    
 crochet some advances.        
  
 Thus put me on notice    
 to receive the pardon of the condemned    
 and count the days    
 of my reclusive life.        
  
 Animals passed under the window    
 the night of starry whispers    
 that the chimeras split    
 with great thrusts.        
  
 Can't but    
 I called father and mother    
 from the belly of the earth    
 to the hair of bare trees.        
  
 I got it    
 to accompany the crew    
 without getting caught in the ropes    
 of this assignment to the work.  

  There was there   
  and the musk and the wound
  only at the fork
  the day was barely widening.


 736
   

I walk therefore I am

 
 
 I walk therefore I am    
 and I don't need much    
 let the bell toll    
 the withdrawal of our troops.        
  
 They were brave our soldiers    
 when the very shadow of their groans    
 fluttered before the night of the soul    
 suitable sister of a fiery cloud.        
  
 Post-Disaster Grass    
 was oily and textured    
 just like a damask    
 reddened with women's blood.        
  
 One step then another    
 the body began to shake    
 in front of the kiss of the sun    
 tormented by the crumpled clouds.        
  
 In the wheat of the fields    
 with a drunken butterfly    
 I assemble the beam of fire    
 for the return of the living.        
  
  
 735
   

The word too much

 
 
 Don't lift the word too much    
 wooden cross iron cross    
 go to hell    
 the children of the dying.         
  
 Slowly turn off    
 leftovers from the night before    
 mixed ashes    
 those offerings to the gods that reason venerates.         
  
 There is no worse fear    
 than hunting    
 behind the deer    
 then to raise the cross of flames.        
  
 Call dizziness and nausea    
 when silence becomes an accomplice    
 remorse at making the other coit    
 without the rub.        
  
 Deliver the admirable juice    
 Mirabelle plums my sisters    
 where to indulge mirror    
 on beautiful summer nights.        
  
 By master's hand    
 to be born from the coal of the excavations    
 the rich power of kind words    
 to do gouzi-gouzi to the sons of the spirit.        
  
  
 734 

La poésie c’est ça

 
  La poésie c'est dire    
 c'est rire du rien    
 c'est partir sans se retourner    
 pour que la vérité advienne.        
  
 La poésie accrochée au Levant    
 refait les gestes d'antan    
 en guettant par le trou de serrure    
 l'arrivée du printemps.        
  
 La poésie c'est attendre    
 c'est atteindre    
 c'est attenter aux bonnes mœurs    
 en soupçonnant le mal d'être de la partie.        
  
 La poésie c'est le claquement sec    
 d'une fin de partie    
 où restent après la représentation    
 les diamants purs du néant.        
  
 La poésie c'est la terre    
 et le ciel et la mer    
 quant au rythme d'une escarpolette    
 le revenez-y t'appelle.        
  
 La poésie c'est mourir un peu    
 au fond de la caverne    
 à convertir en mots    
 les aléas du dehors.        
  
 La poésie c'est vivre à bon escient    
 la chair fraîche des tempêtes    
 lorsque le livre replie ses pages    
 la mèche allumée.        
  
 La poésie c'est être hors tout    
 à vif à blanc    
 au feu de l'occasion    
 et mourir sur le flanc après la mitraille.        
  
 La poésie c'est grand et carré    
 à contresens des fleurs bleues    
 lorsque les yeux de flanelle    
 jaillissent d'un crâne éclaté.        
  
 La poésie c'est mignonnette et compagnie    
 sur le bord de la soucoupe    
 à compter les boudoirs de l'affliction    
 à cinq heures de l'après-midi.        
  
 La poésie est tueuse    
 et colérique et monstrueuse    
 pour mâter le rebelle endormi    
 aux marches de la déraison.        
  
 La poésie c'est être autre    
 au plus bas comme au plus haut    
 au coin de la rue telle l'abeille    
 à guetter le bourdon.        
  
 la poésie tripatouille    
 pour s'infiltrer dans le manchon de fourrure    
 quand sonne le béton    
 sous la santiag de l'optimiste.        
  
 La poésie pleure le divin perdu    
 pour enquêter sur ce qui demeure    
 dans la cité aux quatre vents 
 ouverte à la parole.    
                                                               
 La poésie c'est lettre molle    
 aux lèvres de l'humanité nouvelle    
 à lécher fraternellement    
 le retour vers l'Absolu.        
  
 La poésie c'est Dieu et pas Dieu    
 sans violence sans virulence    
 toutes lances dehors    
 en gardant ses distances.        
  
 La poésie est paresseuse    
 quand passe le marchand de sable    
 allégorie des cieux intérieurs    
 au service de sa progéniture.        
  
 La poésie c'est penser    
 sans y penser    
 mais jamais s'agenouiller    
 devant la prise de pouvoir.        
  
 La poésie cette rebelle    
 tourne autour de soi    
 et détoure la figurine de l'amour    
 des avances de Narcisse.        
  
 La poésie manque à l'appel    
 en contournant l'auto-dérision    
 lorsque le plaisir vous hèle    
 sur un air d'accordéon.        
  
 La poésie est là    
 source d'angoisse    
 les vaisseaux brûlés    
 au port de l'astreinte.        
  
 La poésie c'est le bon père de famille    
 qui furtivement    
 de sa sacoche au verbe haut    
 fait jaillir le génie de la lampe.        
  
 La poésie c'est moi c'est toi    
 c'est ce qui heurte du chef    
 les poutres du grenier    
 en verticalité assumée.        
  
 La poésie c'est une caresse    
 sur la joue du vent    
 lors les larmes de la louve     
 appeler ses petits.        
  
  
 733
   

away from romance

 

 away from romance    
 équarri au sceptre divin
 le carénage des vieilles autos  
 fait la nique aux icônes    
 à travers champs    
 such silver arrow    
 piquée au cœur    
 que les sapeurs    
 retrouvent sous la herse du temps.        
  
 Sonnailles de tous les jours    
 orgue tenant la note sous la rosace    
 le pas des moines    
 glisse sous les arcades    
 à l'unisson du pont-levis    
 caressant de ses chaînes    
 les pierres usées du porche    
 à l'approche souffreteuse    
 d'une claudicante valetaille.        
  
 Mesurez vos approches    
 ne gardez en mémoire    
 que la main leste de l'entre-lignes    
 derrière l'étroit vitrail    
 de ces feuilles glacées    
 que le givre a scellées    
 au vent des pleurs     
 de l'enfant épelant l'alpha et l'oméga.        
  
  
 732