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Into The Surf

Wednesday, December 03, 2025


The body floats
The body burrows
The sand collects our progress
Until the end

A line for solace
Turning turning

For hungry hands
Reach their shore
When lottery is lost
Across the land

There is room
For you
On this bed
Of fire and ice
I have kept
Drifting
To and fro

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Secrètement thésauriseur

Tuesday, July 04, 2023


 Lettres à un jeune poète, Rainer Maria Rilke (extrait)

Pour ce qui est des sentiments, purs sont tous les sentiments sur lesquels vous concentrez votre être entier et qui vous élèvent ; impur est un sentiment qui ne répond qu’à une partie de vous-même et par conséquent vous déforme. Tout ce qu’il vous advient de penser quand vous vous reportez à votre enfance est bon. Tout ce qui fait de vous plus que vous n’étiez jusqu’ici, dans vos heures les meilleures, est bon. Toute exaltation est bonne si tout votre sang y participe, à la condition qu’elle ne soit pas simple ivresse ou trouble, mais une joie claire, transparente au regard jusqu’au plus profond ! Comprenez-vous ce que je veux dire ? 

 

Anatomy of a Gag: BEING THERE (by Criterion)


Votre doute lui-même peut devenir une chose bonne si vous en faites l’éducation : il doit se transformer en instrument de connaissance et de choix. Demandez-lui, chaque fois qu’il voudrait abîmer une chose, pourquoi il trouve cette chose laide. Exigez de lui des preuves. Observez-le : vous le trouverez peut-être désemparé, et peut-être sur une piste. Surtout n’abdiquez pas devant lui. Demandez-lui ses raisons. Veillez à ne jamais y manquer. Un jour viendra où ce destructeur sera devenu l’un de vos meilleurs artisans, – le plus intelligent peut-être de ceux qui travaillent à la construction de votre vie.

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3 day love story

Wednesday, June 28, 2023


Dear Charlie,

After all this time, the thought of you revisiting these pages seems so foreign of an idea to me. How many hours can one spend reading about obscure relations, of wounds and tongues? They are, in all honesty, nothing but links of frailty and survival.

A product of my midnight pause, without flag or label; Nothing to box or ship. This... is a life split in obstacles. It is my voice, how uninteresting it may be, it is mine and it is my movement. Barely perceptible. A fungus, it infects the reader in ways that I dare not calculate. The intention though, is of sincere expression. 

Many times I've tried to redesign this place, but I always return to this simple form, free from system and percentage. This... is a privilege of artistic chaos. Have I seduced a sunbaked eye through cloudy subjects? Not on purpose. I suppose any type of manifestation yields secondary, tertiary effects. This... is a privilege of artistic chaos.

Curiosity has brought you here, time after time, with a different accessory around your neck. Is this a business meeting? A prescription? A shelter? A mirror? A coin? A distraction? A war? One might remind you that Everything is Temporary by taking your hand and placing it on cinders.

Are you a casualty? You are as temporary as a dream (cut in two). How many dreams can you craft in one lifetime? Who decides if your dream is valuable? Are you willing to be the best at crafting an ordinary dream? This... is a life split in obstacles. Every fragment is part of a play, in which you are given accoutrements used to constantly remind yourself that you are only, and must be, a Participant. Play along... Charlie.

There has to be some vulnerability through these obstacles, if we are to understand what we want to dream of; What is truly to be valued. To participate is to choose, to move and to react. This is...  being self-taught, in a nutshell. To try without any guiding light. It seems easy enough when mistakes are made on a guitar, instead of a loved one. But a loved one will stay by your side when you fumble. These obstacles offer us the opportunity to feel the parting of transformation and the gathering of authenticity. 

I don't have a process. I have a spirit.

That line could be a joke and you might like it, you might then decide that you like me and we could now be friends. But it's not a joke, it's a cautionary tale.

If all I wanted to offer was a face, this line would be a frame for one single painting. And that would be a joke.




To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.

 

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Cenotaph

Monday, May 08, 2023


Johanna: Talk to me some more.

Jacques: It's hard, you know. I don't know what else to say. You're so far away.

Johanna: Tell me a story. 

Jacques: A story? Do you now how it is- do you know what you're supposed to do, to meet a mermaid? 

Johanna: No. 

Jacques: You go down to the bottom of the sea, where the water isn't even blue anymore, where the sky is only a memory, and you float there, in the silence. And you stay there, and you decide, that you'll die for them. Only then do they start coming out. They come, and they greet you, and they judge the love you have for them. If it's sincere, if it's pure, they'll be with you, and take you away forever.

Johanna: I like that story.



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May 08, 2023

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Autumn Eyes

Friday, November 09, 2018




Herbstaugen

Press yourself close
to the ground.

The earth
still smells of summer
and your body
still smells of love.

But the grass 
is already yellowed above you.
The wind is cold
and full of thistledown.

And the dream which waylays you
shadow-footed
your dream
has autumn eyes.

-Hilde Domin

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November 09, 2018



Selected

Sunday, January 28, 2018


Duality
by Wendell Berry

II 
What can bring us past
this knowledge, so that you
will never wish our life
undone? For if ever you
wish it so, then I must wish
so too, and lovers yet unborn,
whom we are reaching toward
with love, will turn to this
page, and find it blank.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Friday, June 17, 2016


I have watched
Thy shadow, and the darkness of thy steps,   
And my heart ever gazes on the depth   
Of thy deep mysteries. I have made my bed   
In charnels and on coffins, where black death   
Keeps record of the trophies won from thee,
Hoping to still these obstinate questionings   
Of thee and thine, by forcing some lone ghost,   
Thy messenger, to render up the tale   
Of what we are. In lone and silent hours,   
When night makes a weird sound of its own stillness,
Like an inspired and desperate alchemist   
Staking his very life on some dark hope,   
Have I mixed awful talk and asking looks   
With my most innocent love, until strange tears   
Uniting with those breathless kisses, made
Such magic as compels the charmèd night   
To render up thy charge: and, tho’ ne’er yet   
Thou hast unveiled thy inmost sanctuary,   
Enough from incommunicable dream,   
And twilight phantasms, and deep noonday thought,
Has shone within me, that serenely now   
And moveless, as a long-forgotten lyre   
Suspended in a solitary dome   
Of some mysterious and deserted fane

From “Alastor”; Preface

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Love Will Win

Tuesday, October 29, 2013


“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”





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October 29, 2013

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Dirty old lighthouse

Sunday, October 13, 2013


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Phony

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October 13, 2013

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OZYMANDIAS

Monday, September 16, 2013


 I MET a Traveler from an antique land,
    Who said, "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
    And on the pedestal these words appear:
    "My name is OZYMANDIAS, King of Kings."
    Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!
    No thing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that Colossal Wreck, boundless and bare,
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.

A poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley



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Plan B, C, D, E

Sunday, August 04, 2013


Henry Rollins:
The America is not a place you live in, it's a video-game that you survive. I'm not only an American, I'm an Americanist. I survive America, in spite of what it wants to do to people like me. 




Application + Discipline + Focus x 99

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August 04, 2013



Intersection

Monday, July 15, 2013



And there is the account of the hanging of three men, and a scuba diver, and a suicide. There are stories of coincidence and chance, of intersections and strange things told, and which is which and who only knows? And we generally say, "Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn't believe it." Someone's so-and-so met someone else's so-and-so and so on. And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that strange things happen all the time. And so it goes, and so it goes. And the book says, "We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."

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Like a virgin

Tuesday, June 25, 2013


Hymn 21, 2013 by Chad Wys

« Les imbéciles ne pensent qu’à partager leurs merveilles avec la multitude, ce qui est le plus sûr moyen de perdre son butin, et surtout de le voir se muer en une chose vulgaire. » 
Mercure
Amélie Nothomb

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INFJ

Monday, May 20, 2013


We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

- Carl Jung

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Motives

Thursday, January 31, 2013


“It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will want to emulate us and pass on our ideas, manners, and lifestyle to future generations. This is more than enough motivation for me to do good things in my life and teach my children to do the same.”

-Greg Graffin
Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

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Zugzwang

Sunday, January 27, 2013


There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics. The former is supple and lifelike, it follows our experience. The latter is abstract and rigid, more ideal. The latter is perfectly necessary, perfectly reliable: the former is only sometimes reliable and hardly ever systematic. But the logic of mathematics achieves necessity at the expense of living truth, it is less real than the other, although more certain. It achieves certainty by a flight from the concrete into abstraction. Doubtless, to an idealist, this would seem to be a more perfect reality. I am not an idealist. The logic of the poet — that is, the logic of language or the experience itself — develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant. 

The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton

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January 27, 2013

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It's history. It's poetry.

Monday, October 01, 2012



"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catchthem. That's all I'd do all day..."

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La Corneille

Thursday, September 13, 2012



Corneille, ma noire
corneille qui me saoules
opaque et envoûtante
venue pour posséder ta saison et ta descendance

Déjà l’été goûte un soleil de mûres
déjà tu conjoins en ton vol la terre et l’espace
au plus bas de l’air de même qu’en sa hauteur
et dans le profond des champs et des clôtures
s’éveille dans ton appel l’intimité prochaine
du grand corps brûlant de juillet

Corneille, ma noire
parmi l’avril friselis

Avec l’alcool des chaleurs nouvelles
la peau s’écarquille et tu me rends
bric-à-brac sur mon aire sauvage et fou braque
dans tous les coins et recoins de moi-même
j’ai mille animaux et plantes par la tête
mon sang dans l’air remue comme une haleine

Corneille, ma noire
jusqu’en ma moelle

Tu me fais prendre la femme que j’aime
du même trébuchant et même
tragique croassement rauque et souverain
dans l’immémoriale et la réciproque
secousse des corps

Corneille, ma noire

Gaston Miron


This inspired the latest bloc of words I pieced together last week. You can hear a wonderful version of this poem by Michel Faubert here. The music takes it to another level...


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September 13, 2012

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Show Au ♥

Wednesday, January 20, 2010


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January 20, 2010

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