A R I A N E D R E Y F U S
________________________TWO POEMS
Translated by Kevin Nolan
Definitions
(for all those who think I already say too much about it)
Sex: heart of the body of those that love. After a certain age. Deflecting death.
Hope: lighter, figurative sense of ‘desire'. Both tremble the presentness of the interior.
Breasts are all different and are always different.
Cinema: a gesture prolonged collectively, now turned into a love scene. To watch ourselves again in thought. Speak to you of it.
The music as listened to.
Sex: as used equally by men as women. Meeting place and universal emotion.
Hands: to speak of them would take hours. You give them to them.
Lips: even more potent. No such thing as a lover who doesn't embrace them.
Hair: sometimes forgotten. Yet offering pathways to those who can't quite leave, and stay locked in embrace.
Derrière: so that a little of the feminine inheres when speaking of it. All the same, not much.
My love: where will it go? This fluttering word never knowing if it will ever find rest.
You: where he likes to rest, present or absent. And which transforms him.
To write: to embrace and never to. Freely shifting to the inside.
Poetry: writing you is day.
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