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Implant

24 Sunday Jan 2016

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Deception digs

where sprouts the singular.

Thought fallen into the heart

in vacant spirit penetrates you

where you think.

Shimon Bar Yoahi could be in no other place

than this dark cave

knocking, unheeded at closed gates

for the sake of transparence.

Lo yikaret is a promise made to broken men

And it is true we must cut-off the path to miss

clarity in the sense of silence.

Today, you can enter any building

you can look from any window

and yet much can’t be explained.

What is Petre Tutea for in destitute time?

What lies beneath the surface?

Beneath tv screens?

Self-fulfilling prophecy

is the gate through which

we all must at some time pass.

 

 

S.M

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The first to remember Benjamin MiTudelo

04 Monday Jan 2016

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Bayswater lighthouse, Benjamin of Tudela, New Brunswick Bayswater lighthouse

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The storm is over. Must be something in the air

A metaphor to keep me silent

Those small snowflakes that are hanging down

Swell likely to drop the iron

Down the river, in our hiding-place

We still not ready for archeology

What I became move us away

From prophesies and from sounds of History

Away from iron windows and flags

The first to remember Benjamin MiTudelo in Sicily

Will still hear the bloody distant milk away.

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14 Monday Dec 2015

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Edith Piaf, kippur, Proust Marcel

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I did not smell the apple

behind Proust Madeleine

But your scent yes

a scent of cinnamon

My kippur shall be without apples

And without smell

Dives have no odor

 

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Ferdinandea

27 Friday Mar 2015

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Mes graves n’émettent plus aucun son

c’est ce que je remarque quand je me réessaye au piano

et l’interminable couvre bouches brodé

avec lequel, enfant, je faisais un lorica.

Sur le dessus du piano défense réduite

des lapins processionnaires insérés dans un bois de Palerme

font route vers l’armoire qui abrite un casque centurion

parodiant les singes de la sagesse.

Il doit y avoir quelque chose

une métaphore qui m’aiderait à parler

mes graves ne sonnent pas.

Je déplace les animaux d’ivoire,

les pierres, l’espèce forte et la friable

quand je referme le piano les charnières grincent

le bois laqué claque.

Sur ma peau dépigmentée ils reprennent leur tour de garde

au millimètre près sur les marques ou la greffe ne prend pas.

Je ne peux pas parler

l’altitude a atrophié mes poumons

je n’ai pas les racines de l’edelweiss

je dois redescendre à ma place

cesser de m’inventer la force d’un membre que je ne possède pas

des images, maintenant que ma main droite seule pianote sébile.

Ma mère et mon père, à l’écart, qui se parlent sans tendresse

mon père, blanc comme un linge, laissé seul et nerveux dans le couloir

car il fait nuit ce matin et les trilles aiguës suffisent à taire

et ma famille éléphantine est en chemin dans l’ivoire.

Je suis sévère avec mon sang

mon corps tubercule tari, qui existe,

et qui cependant n’est pas essences et contingences, bruit la mort,

la phrase du sang n’a pas de point

ou alors il faut être le mot de trop, la saillie.

Ca ne se joue pas à peu de choses tout dire et s’arracher au mensonge

et c’est toute la chair qui vient avec le masque parce qu’il date.

Comment lui dire qu’il y a cette ile, Ferdinandea,

en mer de Sicile qui n’existe qu’en de courtes périodes la tête hors de l’eau

d’Empédocle le volcan à son réveil sa colère le portant,

Empédocle hissé se fait ile

l’ile demeure encore un temps ile,

puis plonge à nouveau

le feu alors rendormi rêve moins de dix mètres sous les vagues

ensuite une éternité passée au crible l’eau.

Dix, vingt, trois secondes, et le volatile reparaît

loin miniature souffle inchangé à l’abri du fouet de la langue.

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The sandal of Empedocles

14 Saturday Mar 2015

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Picture: Courtesy of the Wolbach Library, Harvard – Étienne Trouvelot 1872

The meandering routine

Is a bottomless volcano

Where everything must burn

Like the sandal of Empedocles

Left at the lip of a crater

Signs for the presence or absence

Preserve the longing to become tangible

Hide the En sof from us

Then an aesthetic consumerism

For a lifetime unless it falls.

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Geology of the Sephira Kether

13 Friday Mar 2015

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Picture : Andrea Galvani, The Intelligence of Evil #6, 2007

We do not want to disappoint

Even those who count for nothing

This is very mortifying

And this freedom you speak about

Is a fantasy but not sure…

I am not like you

I am cerebral, not visceral

I have the introspection

My roots grow there

In the tree where I hang down

The Kabbalists are wrong

My infidelity is in the Kether  (כתר) 

I forsake the flesh

 I take it off

This is not new

Three years

Every second burning

Before I had to open

Then I went in and locked the door 

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The thickness of things

31 Saturday Jan 2015

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Apache tears

Must bee seen

The crawling blade

That we believed to be the sea

Those bodies that were believed to feel

Untie their incredible prehistories

Like the water on dumb temple pilots

Inner excavation opens a garden of stones

They consent to silence

To the immobility of the leaves before the storm

For a wing to unfold in the light of aging

The bird in a metal flight

Comes like the rain through the observable

I am free cried the bird from love gripped

Just take what is alive

I will burn the stone

The wind mistaken wheat

Silence doesn’t disunite

His flesh in words of core aims and bends

Our intimate orchards

The line takes off

Cutting edges

Of the white hole in the gesture

No door for departure

Use only the faithful and naked Coal

I remember a lovely July

The pure echo of demolished walls

A foot, a wing in Buci

I remember my voice lost in other vocals

And Guillevic

I remember the thickness of things

The hand that holds

The blue abyss

Inks

We will go for tomorrow

Full of doubts and wheat

I wait as only shadow could

Surrounded by the sun

Look for a meaning to eclipses

Forget my decipherable shadow

Let only my stone bear down

No voice left to bend the other voices

My real world is silent

In the unexplored retread of me

Rises a metamorphic seed

The stone

And it birds weigh

There is a story that is told

Then the waves, the stunning waves

I have for her the obvious

Dead shoes

Unknown caramels

And perfumes from Edo

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Sea Level

29 Saturday Nov 2014

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Rimbaud, Sea Level, Vayéchev”

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Rimbaud on his boat
Screamed: Earth Remember!!
And before sinking
Saw a million of golden birds

Thus, the line
Goes
Geometrizing my soul
With a blue mathematic

When your blue line calls me
My soul is flooded by
Like a window in the sun

The stream of life fills Washington streets
But all I want

Is to be the blood flowing all day
In the inextricable maze of your skin

How many are like me
Hiding under a cloak worn by the wanderings
Their wrinkled wings?

How many are like me
With a lack hidden by thousands words?

The green seems gray to me
Only the blue survived

And your hands
Holding me like Montaigne
Painted the passages of my soul

And even if I read Flaubert
Even if he assures me that the immensity
Has no conclusion

I remember

The “Vayéchev”

In your arms

And all your flowers with some scientific names

That I don’t know                                                                                  

Remind me the face of Ophelia                                                

 

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