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It’s not the sea

02 Saturday Jul 2022

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kayak rapids, sea, sea tide

If it’s not the sea, it’s her image,
her figure, upside down, in the sky.

If it’s not the sea, it’s her voice
thin, Across the vast world,
amplified by the wind.

If it’s not the sea, it’s her name
In a tongue without lips,
out of place,
no other word than this:
big

If it’s not the sea, it’s her idea
of fire, impenetrable, pure;
and i,
burning i drown in her.

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Kinship

04 Friday Feb 2022

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Kinship

I would like to geometrize the visible

See a willingness in the world of matter

Everything to the gaze exposed as a surface on a volume

It amalgamates tight densities

Behind the coloured screens

A new type of boredom is created

All grey on lights everywhere you can’t see

Begotten worlds that generations have to dig

Dig deep enough to build a sandcastle

 What to cling to, before riding into a narrow bridge

Stay with me

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Thin periscope

26 Friday Nov 2021

Posted by S/O in Architecture, Poetry, Uncategorized

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Herzog, Lotte Eisner

When I look at you

A reed smell comes to me

Thin periscope

Discreet among all the chirping and bird songs

It’s all about echolocation

Tonight

I wanted to let the sky enter my foundations

Widen the walls

Surprise the slow sway of the branches in the wind

Everything changed

My building no longer needs columns or a water jet

I started looking for air holes that would break the sonorous magma of the city

The envelope of my building is no longer an envelope.

The walls are no longer walls

I told you about Herzog’s diary

How he had undertaken a twenty two days march from Munich to Paris

Against the fate of the imminent death of Lotte Eisner

Haw at the end he walks into the sick room declaring

Open the window for the past few days I have been able to fly

So do I

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What matters

05 Thursday Aug 2021

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Brad Mehdau, Charlie Haden, gil scott heron, Watermelon

It was hot today

I was so hot and humid until I stopped thinking

I read books from the end to the beginning and still stay in tension

The world continues to move around its rusty axis

And to me it doesn’t matter

Life is short

Drink water

Or wine

Listen to the music

Or to the sky

Try to bloom the wilderness

Look up

Take a deep breath

Wear clothes that are bright and quiet

Go out to bike

Or to any space

Eat Watermelon slowly

Read a book

Today we are not brides

Make love

Enough !

It is enough

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Symmetrical

01 Thursday Jul 2021

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Raised splendor who fell

Cannot return to the previous state

The splendor swallowed up by its object

Now to invoke it

You let it pass

Hold nothing back

Follow the rhythm, resonate, and contemplate

Fall again

The fall teaches nothing when we are saved

Start over as you get up

One of us observes the other acts

Two modes for one life perfectly symmetrical

I observe the action and deconstruct it as it goes

One repeating the other to unite

Especially when the head is elsewhere

The rules are changing

Goals contradict each other

On the inverted body, the blue line folds over each other

A third life is being invented

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Repetition #1

14 Monday Jun 2021

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Marie Plassard

The place is dark

I wouldn’t be there

Everything that happens in this place is also vague

The walls have absorbed enough follies

That behind them alone escape stories that get lost

You are not at all where you thought you were

On screen, they draw the elements of the future one by one

The pace of exposure and aggregation

The map is drawn

The choice of a place made it methodical

More moral, laborious, repetitive therefore ruthless

The bridge no longer exists

The other side of the landscape where you wanted to go

Has changed

We will stay until it is light

The City will be covered by traffic noise

The path will act as a buffer

We’ll go home, we’ll close the curtains

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Blue

11 Friday Jun 2021

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For many years I have been searching the far edge of what can be seen

Horizons, anything far away

That distance is the colour of my emotions and desire

The far away where you are not

And where you can never fly to

You never arrive in for the blue world

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost

Some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

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The infinite present

11 Tuesday May 2021

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Philippe Ramette

Every hug meets a battle

Looking away is no longer new

Conquest puts in pieces

Don’t continue the building

Neither high nor low

Approach the beginnings to their ends

Reduce the sail so that nothing advance

Time is insatiable

Restart

Take a bit of yesterday loss

Disappear behind a summit

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May is yours

01 Saturday May 2021

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Fibonacci numbers, May, spring

 

May is bold and beautiful

With lenses in the eye

This May is yours

Scale down

The fertility of spring

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The path

15 Thursday Apr 2021

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Claude Paradin, Devises heroïques, stanley kubrick

The path when you reborn again in me
will be exactly the same
but this time i will take it in the opposite direction
to immediately face the untoward winds
be forever behind your back

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