Claude Royet-Journoud
The Image-Maker
the face directed forwards has a bent towards discourse
wall as space
and
origin
pregnant with whiteness
on which to quicken the background
the book
in the family of the book
the use of bodies and of surfaces
she holds pleasure and pattern
the look of letters
their impatient play
ten steps before the ruins
the dwellers along the shore are at work here
the arc of the trees
allows us to maneuver
from here
to behind herecalmly
up to the wall
the white exactness of imagery
hero of the daycavalier emotion
product of the Italian schoolsituates
reading about our battlesit tells of innocence
it should be blue
the literary colour
when we hold wake over a new form of obscurity
accessory
he turned his breath aside
became
attention’s breath-blur
for birth is always being caught
a little short
of usefulness
of oblivion
environment of mind
the origin shifts
the fable shows nothing
the obsession with contiguity is an end point
he rules
chance shape
search for the locus of density
without making images
the line skims the book
to its roughest conclusion
the single side
prey to the geometry of paces
everywhere
this neutral
breathing
take him alive !
that’s how narratives always got going
he’s dead on his feet
they used to say it that way
now he sleeps
consciousness is a conflagration
when the workers will take their place
*
one retains little from it
the commentary they gave it
true that the hand anchors the wood
Translated by Keith Waldrop
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