Category Archives: Year 2022

Tangle

The world of the night
at the tick of the clock
drains the heart
tinnitus
initialing the doubts and pains
of the poor plowman
in an imbroglio of connections
to strip the sound from below
to graph the sound above.      
 
Of this inventoried world
at the Guinness of minimal art
remains open
the presence of dreams
scrambled by the clamor of chatter
in the brown jackets of the mind
wrapped in satisfactions
of the distribution of prizes
in the time of John the Baptist.      
 
There was
the receding sea
on the sand
the hair braids of the shorn
horse mane
disappeared in the tidal wave
in contact with air and ether suckers
gathered half mystery
half dark pearl of the pitfalls.         
 
On the rising the rose was pointing
with a smell of green algae
language effect
holding out his full mouth
methane bubbles
at the level of the bathing cabins
then drifted on the horizon
the windsurfer crying wolf
in front of the sublime wave.      
 
answered him
security whistles
presumed histrions of the Relève
perpetuating at the gates of the city
fear of invaders
click clicking their iron boots
the damp cobblestones of the dark alleys
with pestilential odors
to cut the throat of the maskless.      
 
Not far from there
under the gilding of reason
prey to the impatience of waiting
Little Pierre watched   
the last palpitations of the candle
late watch companion
spent wringing the neck of the insanities of oblivion
homage paid to the one who at the bottom of the calle
cherished the little pebble white with white.      
 
 
1045


The Gift of Life

I yawned
without giving me a nice kiss
the
in this moment after the effort
to be in nothing
between heaven and earth
to contemplate the in-between
between before and after
this full availability to Self
in the making
but not yet
in the gap of emptiness
breath sensitive
facing the unknown, to the nameless, to the unrepresentable
facing the silencer, in the shade, à la claire lumière   
cette approche de ce qui fait tourner le moteur   
au Don de la Vie   
entrer en Relation avec la Réalité   
cette Présence de l'entièreté   
de la montagne au coucher du soleil   
tout autant que celle du Visage de l'Autre   
non réductible à soi   
mais qui me projette dans l'Ailleurs   
dans cette Présence qui m'accompagne.      
 

1044

Scars on all floors

I'm made of bone and flesh
to commit suckling sun
the feat of narrating
the sweet illusion of having lived.      
 
On the burning wire
nets thrown at auction
brought us back to the shore
the dry sphagnum moss of understanding.      
 
written pages
got out without worries
Sisyphus' pearls
from the dodger of circumstances.      
 
Late at night
had swallowed one by one
the sweets of reason
convinced that the worst was yet to come.      
 
Scars on all floors
raging iron and fire
picked the first plants
for new brilliance to appear.   
 
Extreme burns 
to the pandemonium of afflictions
under the veranda with fine dawn veils 
torn by the desert wind.

~ accomplished obsolescence.
 
 ( Drawing by Jean-Claude Guerrero )


1043
 

Morning not yet here

Le matin pas encore là   
fait le malin   
comme de bien entendu   
derrière le tilleul   
dorment les gens de bien   
avant l'arrivée des merles tapageurs   
de leurs trilles rouges forge   
essayant d'éclabousser la coulée du silence   
qui sera mienne   
main dans la main   
avec les enfants
émergeant d'un passé pas loin du tout   
à la corolle fraîche    
de tant de bienfaits   
sitôt porte grinçante ouverte   
sur l'autel basaltique   
élever l'offrande en fin de partie   
alors que se bousculaient   
babil des poules mécontentes   
s'éparpillant devant la sortie   
des vaches de l'écurie   
Mareuille en tête   
bousant à qui mieux mieux   
sur les pierres rondes de la cour   
sermonnées en cela   
par Riquette aux jappements de lumière.      
 
 
1041


Emotions roll

Emotions roll
on the way to vacation
when the corks pop.         
 
From the beginning she was there
the immense darkness
with wet kelp beard.      
 
Elle avançait   
comme un battement de cœur sourd et lent   
en ne pouvant faire que ça.      
 
And it took years
where she had been
in the shade of lemon trees.       
 
Le temps des bordures horlogères   
clignait de leurs étoiles   
comme on fume un pétard.      
 
Without habits or customs
scraps of wallpaper
ring their bells.      
 
Graffiti of my nights
taped to the walls of the city
extra round legs.      
 
Confetti of light in the eyes
hands crossed on stomach
waiting for happy words.      
 
On the North Bridge
a ball is given there
for a few doublezons.      
 
little man of dreams
thin-legged
bear trainer
reluctantly
towards a beautiful horizon
gone backwards
the nerves in a ball
in abstraction
in the land of the spheres
such drops of sweat
falling unreasonably
on the metal cover   
off-peak hours.      
 
Plein le ciel   
les yeux de Marylène   
inondèrent de pensées   
les sommets enneigés   
de tendres roucoulades   
d'étreintes et de choses écloses   
l'espace d'une nuit   
à parer le bouquet de flamboiements   
alors que le Verbe infini du poète   
effaçait l'objet de l'étreinte  
pour se dépouillant   
être une pincée d'herbes folles.      
 
 
1040

A few more steps

Se suivent en dansant   
Les points et les virgules   
Collusions de l'esprit.      
 
Children bring up some pebbles
Buried in the wave that smiles
Time for shivering bubbles.      
 
Sur le parterre en lisière   
Éclatent les pâquerettes   
De mon cœur tâches de rousseur.      
 
Of feathers and down
The lark is at its zenith
In the morning fiber.      
 
tall and short
shadow of shadows
Embrace the mystery.      
 
evoked flower
In the light of spring
Time walks with my steps.      
 
sweet countryside
What did I not mention to you
Later in the evening.      
 
Slip the thin smile
In the tender unfolded
With a brief glance.      
 
finally get out
From the satin black of the bedroom
Be tomorrow with your hands in your pockets.      
 
Half walk
To return to the wood of memories
Meet the conjoined leaf and sun.      
 
Dentelle des fraîcheurs   
A la corne d'abondance éclose   
Calmer l'air du lever de nuit.      
 
Retreating from the worry bush
The thought fell in love
From a drop of dew.      
 
A few more steps
In the courtyard of creation
A line of chalk calms the horizon.      
 
To signal   
Au zig zag du papillon   
Les tressaillis du jour qui vient.       
 
 
1039

take action !

With fear but promptness   
we crossed   
the fields of roses and bitter thorns.      
 
have butted
on the Lordship of the Overstepped
That the universe struggles to locate.      
 
Crossing the Lethe
modeled the circle of principles
at the auction of the quivering of the leaves.      
 
The " Mom, mom ! "   
and sexual desire
have mocked like millennials on the go.      
 
stripping the mind
with heavy strokes of the past
we conquered hope.      
 
" take action, take action ! "   
what they said
them " own on oneself " of reason.      
 
Also have the circle
so wide in its infinite radius
that the right appeared.      
 
Wisdom yes
without despair waiting
but with the right word.      
 
Only the present
Cocagne between past and future
conjugate it " I am ".      
 
The Claw of the future
orders and padlocks
the man in his upset descent.      
 
see what is
is major orgasm
for the Newfoundlands of the cold seas.      
 
Separated by enjoyment
patched ego
we are open to everything.      
 
Free yourself from yourself
lets be there
here and now.      
 
Abseil rope point
only eat drink and make love
is flowing river.      
 
Let's not bottle feed
the truth has no borders   
than those of the steppe wind.      
 
The real is true
the ideal is a lie
wisdom is knocking at the door.      
 
Do not Cry
don't believe in " tear dryer "   
be the fruit of your story.   
 
The grain of nostalgia that overwhelms us
is the reminder where we come from
we children of mystery.      
 
Tell life as it is
relieve the suffering
and gather knowledge.      
 
Every step taken
is grace in rejection of progress
For even more assurance.      
 
And pass the thrill of death
the opportunity to be tender with life
we the relatives of our relatives.      
 
 
1038

The White Patou

Creusée à même le sol des solstices   
Appel réitéré d'une voile soulevée en carême   
La Très Chère de son ombre la proie   
Mena tapage exquis sous le mur de pierres sèches   
Comme lumière étrillant la croupe d'une cavale   
En retour de vague sur la plage insolite.
   
After procrastination solifluction
And immediate seizure of innocence
At the pradou of ascending colchiques
Arose calm and contemplative
The white-eyed Patou will see 
The Master of these places.
     
 
 
1037

simple scriptures

De simples écritures    
A la santé mentale assumée  
Se sont jointes aux orages   
En paradis   
Loin du pilon des illusions.      
 
Mordillant l'œillet de poète   
Il cueillait de ses ailes d'argent   
Les fruits confisqués par les Grands   
Pour sans autorisation   
Écarter le verbiage.      
 
His blood
Was a singular broth
Made of haggling
Of post-truths and short circuits
To burn your rind.      
 
Peu de beauté   
Juste un peu de boue   
En bas des pantalons   
Pour statuer sur l'inique mesure   
Prise au son du tambour.      
 
Point de maraude   
La gitane envolée   
Pour garder en lieu sûr   
Les silences reassemblés   
Sur la vitre embuée.      
 
Coins   
From Mont Saint-Michel
Stumbled one by one under the moon
To beg for water and bread
At the hoppers of oblivion.      
 

1036

One to two

One to two
As the years pass
imposes itself
Not to justify
order and disorder
Of the mucilage of acts.      
 
To have been
In the summer of decision
Take center stage
The scattering of words of love
Like being chewed on
Allows the wind to extract dust.      
 
It was yesterday
The sky and the stars had brewed
years and years
To no longer remember
hugs of angels
At the tip of the semaphore.      
 
Backtracking point
Now the blue hole
Promotes in a subtle way   
Retrouvange New
grabbing the lights
That our reason no longer frightens.      
 
point of salvation
Just kindling
To start the fire
And whammy
Here is beyond the erasures
The Return of the Gray Donkey by Buridan.      
 
He is
To assume infinite
The roads ahead
By the magnetic bridge
Considered friendships
Get lost in Cocagne.      
 
Magical
everything is madness
When they leave unreasonably
The bitter fruits of heat waves   
Dropped like old skin
On the black quay of the white seagulls.      
 
Mixing his arms   
In the whirl of the seasons   
The irrational flees   
Supposing that Reason comes   
Between dances and songs   
Lending light to the shadow of our decisions.      
 
 
1035