# 351-Something series (Sète 30 juillet 2016 … Carcès 16 août 2016)
Gropingly but without searching
hands slightly touch and grasp SOMETHING
a splinter of a sticking out story
Detached
a piece of reality within reach
to be fathomed instantly
This might well be a declaration of love
is-it circumstantial …
necessarily contingent …
This scarf
slipping down
could be the
event from which
time is
stepping back to leave us
the whole setting
sun and my legs
taken to your
heels
The blind crossing
danses and outdistances
it’s in the eyes
that poems are written.
A tâtons
mais sans rien chercher
les mains
effleurent et s’emparent de QUELQUE
CHOSE
un éclat de
l’histoire qui fait saillie
Détaché :
un morceau de réel
mis à votre
portée
à saisir
dans l’instant
Ceci
pourrait être la déclaration d’un amour
est-il
circonstanciel …
nécessairement contingent…
Cette écharpe glissée
pourrait
être l’événement
à partir
duquel le temps
recule pour
nous laisser tout
le couchant
et mes jambes
à ton cou
La traversée
en aveugle
danse et
distance
c’est dans
les yeux
que
s’écrivent les poèmes.
we need tweezers for those splinter stories
ReplyDeletenice to keep the poems eye to eye
I enjoyed this something series piece - I couldn't always link the fragments of the splinter series (the detached piece of reality, the declaration of love, the scarf slipping down, the blind crossing) but that didn't detract from the vividness and power of the poem and it's fragmentary, rhizomatic meandering.
ReplyDeleteI love the 'whole setting sun and my legs taken to your heels'. Great work. Keep going x
ReplyDeleteyes, that third stanza is amazing, Beatrice - encompasses so much visually/theoretically including the temporality of poetry in comparison to the temporality of narrative and how we project and identify with the metonymic/metaphoric play in both. As always, your semiotic insights together with your emotional intelligence at work.
ReplyDeleteThanks to you all, I've been "gone" for awhile, too much on my plate, but I'm coming back and happy to reconnect with the 365+1 circle!! You're great and irreplaceable!
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