Door to door with a sunbonnet

   She had put on her hat   
curtly
and took the door.

Since,
silence,
commemoration in times of crisis
small chip on the cup
the light bulb flashes
we are at the end of the line
I opened the bread drawer
cut myself a slice of bread
butter and cheese
way to pass the pill.

The clock strikes five o'clock
the day will appear only in three hours
take a book
until fatigue comes.

The stove still warm
in the dark
on which simmers leftover soup
a moth wakes up
to bump into the bulb.

She had put on her hat
curtly
and took the door.

On the big table
his collages
his thirty year life
his piled up sufferings
a look of a lost doe
an eye-popping landscape
I crumple it all
it wakes up the cat
waddling towards his croquettes.

Often
seems that the adventure
go through the break
that we cross without looking back
offered to the shivering night
ash animated by a breath.

Quickly,
close the door
the room cools down
put a log in the hearth.

She had put on her hat
curtly
and took the door.


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alone at the doorstep

 Alone at the doorstep   
to be between the living and the dead
at the bow of the ship
covering an uncertain future
under the coat hooks in the vestibule
mismatched clothes
by forced wandering .

Clap the banner
the knocking time
offers parentheses
in the crepe of our wounds
without appearing
the poppies of childhood
eternal marriage
before the big upheaval .

In the august fissure
waiting for the day
with a heavy step
the old man goes
on the dusty road
memories to come
warm welcome
breaking away from the too well known .

So offered
this blaze of colors
in full armfuls
enchanted aspiration
of our counted steps
on the crunching gravel
of the sweet coming
of your smile .


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Red dirt under the snow

 Red dirt under the snow  
 for the black of infinity  
 towards the whiteness of events.  

 Traces volatiles  
 under the crystal of movement  
 the frost cracks.  

 Large Cipher Writing   
 sometimes encountered   
 inside the mountains.   
 
 Lost on the edge  
 the child against his heart  
 squeeze the viaticum of beautiful thoughts.  

 Consuming without consuming  
 the height would be to believe  
 and make it look good.  

 In the dark of ink  
 there is the void of space  
 this page of pure silence.  

 For the moths  
 point d'obstacle  
 just the revolt active clasp.  

 The cobblestones of oblivion resound  
 trot-menu of the genius of passage  
 on the white linen of the poem.  

 It crunches underfoot  
 the veins of illusion are declined  
 at the jump of a void of air.  

 shuffle the cards  
 make a big fire  
 love is tap dancing.  

  ( Photo by Caroline Nivelon ) 
 
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die in thoughts

 
die in thoughts
reach the other side
without memory occurring .

Cocher aux basques du temps
sensation
sans que reflet ne vienne .

Scare the pigeon
with a slow gesture
without getting dust .

Skin the Dream Rabbit
out of bed
without remorse reaching .

clear the plain
to the breath of draft animals
without the end of the day .

Snuff out the candles
between thumb and forefinger
without running or burning .

Raising the bulwark
by slow ascent
without the cheers of the crowd
psalmodier quelques reflets de lumière .


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wind sandals

  " Wind sandals "    
that it was called
this being of shadows inhabited
what a cry
out of the usual encounters
this loneliness
with a chipped trace
origin of passions
bent over the pavement of circumstances
this reluctance
to have to do
this sown escape
gold dust
these suns
collected days
in an eggshell
the unbinding of major chords
underground music
winged wind
after continuous casting
my soul
my ability to hug
the in-between
from visible to invisible
the Nothing of our reciprocal agreement .



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the wind that comes in

 The burning wind  
the blowing wind
the laughing wind
the wind that sows
the rushing wind
reversed
and dig the river
of a shadowy vortex
my soul is a rolled stone
under the plow share
turned stone
revealing the honey of the earth
rubbing stone
to which the skin rubs
hungry belly
of the child to come
under the cry delivered
at the end of cycle
finally roses
bitten by frost
with pigment adornments
rows of bacchanals
on the take-off board of my lair
of my between us
open door
that with one finger I open wide
to the wind that comes
to the wind that blows .


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pass-walls of passing time

 do you remember
plane trees along the canal
crows at dusk
with festoons of light
spelled by the sound of water
glued to the treetops
majestic unfolded clouds
parted lips
swing of the arms
to the columns of the temple
metronomic auscultation
holes that light floods
ending summer night
to sweaty rebels
that the wind embraces
frisson ardent
simple answer
that the footsteps curl
under the pleasant dew
rosy cheeks
candles show
in the striking shadow
light fabric on your shoulder
ripples in your voice
indentation of a memory
pass wall of passing time .


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your light hand nibbles the strings

 Your light hand  
nibbles the strings
raised hat
dressed in black clothes
my marine excess
my long fingers
on the terminal spear
without instinct .

Water sports
on a slight slope
papillotes and caramels
of their crystal stripped
for front teeth
hug the slack
vintage nights .

Decoction of your smile
under the warm duvet
can spin the galaxies
musical staves
in breath of feigned flight
mountebank
that a cloud erases
so early so late
the lock of hair over the eye
trouble the infinite .


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the stark quest

 Mind Sever
the current no longer flows
like many others
the escape .

From the same to the same
listening desperation
the throat swells
and is silent .

From Vincent to Toulouse
the mirror abolished
finger snap
on busy zinc .

Raw to dry
under the blood of hot lands
a charcoal between the teeth
the stark quest .


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