Passing
and Melville would have said I
I run away from bovine floors
and Coolidge
his hands in the crystal Clark.
The poem born of the shock of the word and another idea
Herman and Clark, uncertainties, reflections of the passing shock.
beer, matches of the dream dreaming whale and toad,
sparks, mental sisters (tatters or unity)
"I" so fresh an obstacle
the arc of hands or thighs
to the crystal blond penis,
You swim woman of words,
a little sun on books
your thought another thorn
dreaming of days growing and sun on bones!
Azure arc of ciment.
Who says the empty house lets in high seas
or a harbour in each harbour?
Celebrate the old elegy the legend with the cat,
the sunflower's succession.
Suck the baptismal name
crystalline smock toward percussive day.
An angel in the alphabet,
joining order, tooth to the ashtray of light.
The light of time
official
full flesh of clear voices in the perpetual corridor …
lips even better the west wind
dries blood of portholes
THE SEA OF OCCULT PAPER
passing
"light of reason"
Men were currently sailors
On the cool edge of the sea.
Finally,
prepare a line from single word of an ars poetica.
frangendo ogni diaframma
in an unmarked time,
Stacked rhythmic a city
and sets without instruments,
grammar sacrifices and trying to talk
licking the circular cat
with a mechanical heart
in the Balearic valleys
Old child deprived of place turning his whistled tongue.
Ivry sur Seine, March 1987.
Translated by Serge Gavronsky
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