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Here it is the boundary with its unfindable sadnesses - by Jean Portante

{ Poem }

Here it is the boundary with its unfindable /sadnesses…

Youth - by Henri Thomas

{ Poem }

On the boulevards of the Opéra
/ where the girls pace up and down
/ turning this way, and turning that
/ their svelte and lovely…

The Académie Française Considers a Word for ‘Dogging’ - by Andy Jackson

{ Poem }

Chiennage, a literal response, is cast aside,
/ its laziness the thin end of the wedge, reminder
/ that the Anglophones are twenty miles…

Le quartier des fleuves - by Anne Talvaz

{ Poem }

Moi aussi j’aurais pu grandir ici,
/ dans ces rues plates et calmes
/ et sans mystère mais peut-être n’est-ce
/ que parce qu’elles sont plus…

Nous ne sommes pas l’arbre - by Dominique Sorrente

{ Poem }

Nous ne sommes pas l’arbre
/ mais son feuillage qui raconte.
/
/ Nous ne connaissons rien du jour,
/ pourtant l’aube nous a mis en marche.
/
/ Nos…

Je t’écrivais… - by Valérie Rouzeau

{ Poem }

Je t’écrivais des cartes postales pour tous
/ les jours.
/
/ Deux le vendredi donc à cause du dimanche.
/
/ Des crocus coloriaient la neige…

Fil d’horizon - by Jacques Rancourt

{ Poem }

Sur ce fil d’horizon
/ simple
/ sur cette nuit d’horizon
/ il y a une pleine lune qui se joue au ballon
/ il y a la…

Greffe - by Jean-Pierre Lemaire

{ Poem }

Dans le café, on éteint les lumières
/ pour nous signifier l’heure de la fermeture.
/ Sans hâte, elle finit de boire son thé
/ et…

Si je vous dis - by Josée Lapeyrère

{ Poem }

si je vous dis le livre vert ouvert
/ sur la table du jardin devant moi
/ quand je le dis pour vous je…

La banlieue… - by Leslie Kaplan

{ Poem }

La banlieue, c’est pareil. L’espace, l’espace tue.
/
/ On est debout à l’arrêt du bus. On attend le car. Autour
/ il y a…

Ossature jetée à… - by Yves Jouan

{ Poem }

Ossature jetée à l’ex-
/ trême pointe d’une vague à peine
/ dégagée
/ de la flamme Le vent
/ met à mal le tranquille
/ cheminement d’un homme
/ emplit
/ de bourrasque…

D’un sourire - by Ludovic Janvier

{ Poem }

On prend le temps de respirer toute la dormeuse
/ mais sur une passante on se retourne déchiré
/ d’un seul coup par ce…

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