Friday, December 10, 2010

III

Je suis ton secret,
ton à part,
rien qu’une silhouette
qui rumine au fond de ton cerveau,
une indulgence,
une facilité éphémère,
une didascalie qui serait mieux avertie
d’arrêter son cinéma
derrière les rideaux.

Et tu diriges ton monde
comme si chaque moment était une scène manquée :
imparfaite, incomplète, insolente
On arrête et on recommence.
On arrête et on recommence.
On arrête
et on recommence
jusqu’à temps que l’épuisement ralentit le tournage
et la lucidité de ton acte
dévoile une lassitude
transpirante de tes paupières :

Ta finesse orchestrale,
Dévêtue d’un silence audacieux
Se détend dans un siège
Parmi le velours et le vide;
Son corps de bois
Feigne un repos mérité
Comme si son autonomie lui dépendait,
Comme si les fils au bout de ses doigts
N’étaient jamais reliés à ton cœur.

Dramaturge,
Tu pourras m’écrire plus belle dans tes rêves
Une muette dans ton manuscrit,
Complaisante entre des lignes
Rythmées, fluides, répétées –
Elles sonnent si joliment dans le noir.

Mais je ne suis qu’une analepse somnambule,
Ondulante entre tes délires et ta direction
Renonçant mon innocence à l’écran
Pour l’équivoque que tu m’assumes.

Et à chaque scène,
Nous restons figés sur nos mots
croisés dans chaque quotidien matinal,
Nos intimités se réconfortent
A chaque gorgée de café,
Préoccupant nos lèvres
D’une habitude si assoupie
Que nous n’osons plus résoudre
Les complexités qui se cachent
Dans nos jeux de mots,
Nos banalités prétentieuses,
Nos prétextes inutiles
Qui ne cessent de nous faire vivre
Dans un faux éternel.

Mais lorsque ce théâtre millimétré,
Collectionnant la beauté
Avec un magnétisme argenté,
Lâche un dernier soupir
Avant que le rouleau
Trouve la fin de son négatif,
Elle rallume ta réalité
Et te remet ton cœur emboîté,
Ta perfection enivrée,
Ta vérité inventée
Comme si de rien n'était,
Comme si on ne s'était jamais rencontré
Comme si cet amour n'avait jamais existé. 

Friday, December 3, 2010

Centre Street Platform

The streetlights glitter
under an onyx-speckled sky,
Winter’s miniatures play stars for the evening
in the fabric of its dark velvet coattails
A classic nighttime attire,
draped like stage curtains
over a backdoor balcony
softens its lip 
to lace its fingers around the frosted tips of a breathless kiss
Beaded deliquescence,
soaking the shadows of a silent solace,
disappears with the arrival of another
period in an extended sentiment of a sentence…

and the words trail off without being spoken
like smoky Friday school afternoons:
ashen shapes spiraling out with every expiration,
hypnotizing the eyes of innocent desires
as if the mysteries of a heart’s phonetics
were whispered in each smoke ring.

A fevered pulse beats under the faintest voice
a pretty Girl’s heart swells in a Boy’s embrace
her departure impressing upon last night’s choice
his hands clasp around her waist like a corset enlaced - 

She should have practiced breathing.

Haunting the curves of a weary track,
the train ghosts into tomorrow
its chains clink sleepily
against the metal ground
as its wheels take rest between blankets of snow.

She waits behind the yellow of a do not cross
for a way out of fate
and her skeletons’ beds,
for a life that will blush her vacant heart red,
for the doors to sweep open
and release her from his touch,
for a present that could rewrite this instance as such.

She stares into the starry bodies
blinking from inside,
their lives thawing through every sealed window pane
like his smile in her eyes - 

She should have practiced crying.

Winter picks up the space between their warmth,
white flecks filling a translucent outline
of leaving footprints
heel to toes and heel to toes
her presence still lingers in the midnight dust
but the chimes have sung their goodbyes
and the yellow has turned to black
and the streetlights have closed their eyes
and taken the coattails off their backs

Winter’s miniatures have fumbled in their script
to crack the sky in this velvet eclipse
a canvas of white,
bursting from the only breathing heartbeat
out of this nighttime tuxedo,

the only heart beating off the centre street platform 

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Vinyl

Plush, upholstered booths
Shadow the slender silhouettes
Of red-lipped mysteries,
Breathing smoke out of velvet cigarettes
And sipping liquid sex appeal
As if they’d been paid to photograph
Black and white –
Their fingers muse along
The ashes of a dark morning,
Their gaze slipping between ice cubes of ecstasy,
And down the throat of a jaded bartender
Who’s seen too many candles burn out to the night –
They seemed to own the place.

Raspy melancholy wraps its thorns around their heels
Like a needle digs into vinyl;
Jukebox violins begin to play
From the mouth of a mechanical change-purse
As midnight men reveal their faces
Under dusty luck and charm
To find that tonight won’t end
In placid conversation.

Finely woven legs uncross
One by one,
Sinking their toes into the tapestries;
Red and gold tassels
Wake writhing
From the unmistakable caress
Of illusive grace.
Stroking secrets from beneath the concrete floor
Like the satin touch of working sensuality,
They tease the nape of each habitué,
Willing to tempt himself
Of more than the regular invitation.

Their spirits seemed to do the talking,
Their clamour seemed to do the smiling,
And with rose-stem heels
Untangled from the weary threads
Of seamless mosaics,
Coupled legs slip out of stillness
To sway in musical time.


Hazy in smoke-filled attraction,
Their casual seductions 
Begin to rise above the nightly lyrical,
Stirring a lucent mystery
From the comforts of her plush aesthetics
And the debris of lonely red-lipped filters.

With a raven curl rolling loosely down her cheek,
She dips into the carpeted ceramic
To lift the needle off the vinyl

She did not want to dance tonight.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

sleeptalking

Fleeing time won’t end this fight
When you’re fishing for words in a desert well
Waiting for inspiration to bite
And nostalgia to lift its spell
So that the body can remedy
The drought of propensity
In its north to west trajectory.

Its scintillating circuitry
Reroutes of pasts and histories
What today’s weatherman cannot forecast:
A logic left to gypsies and barefoot arts,
Alleyway pocket change and lucky pennies,
Coups de cœur et coups de foudre,
To explain why our lips never move
As fast as our hearts.

We spin webs out of dreams
To slip under the silk
Of what unconsciously frees
The truth from its pages,
The mental manifestos
From their lofty cages,
This writer’s block from a canvas’ empty spaces –
Because falling asleep
Needs neither charm nor eloquence
To relieve the mind of its mysteries.

And so we fall in to feel free.

We fall asleep to create
Perfect dialogs of sentient intimacy
Where speech beguiles
Every bone in a frozen body –
It makes the blues blush silver
Under the moons of fairytale eyes,
And paints the shadows of their irises
With brush tip syllables;
All to let its nighttime creativity
Make us believe that we love better
In our imaginary.

Pixels of three
Weave their primaries
Around our artist dreams,
Our static screens of faded l-ve
That live lightless and silent
In unawakened vacancy.
But the dark can only keep us quiet for so long
So bundle up baby
And press your lips against mine,
You don’t want your words to catch cold tonight.