Poem
Michèle Métail
Maze – you are here (10)
danger of wear and tear, leave strangerthanks to sudden favor, irruption
looked out after perspectives
by doorway where these petrified
contours scatter, recourse to
shadows, lights spotted
opaque fall out, half-tones on
disoriented sight, unobtainable
in graphic territory, profile
on hold of town, fragments
of vis-a-vis instant, route taken
in rotating transit, earth hastened
according to length of horizons
and stays dizziness, blinking
eyelash, eye uncertain of enigma
the place continually near, far
you are here, outside of the circle
strange passerby, stranger then
to free usage, going nowhere
© Translation: 2000, Michèle Métail
From: Toponyme : Berlin. Dédale - cadastre - jumelage - panorama
Publisher: Tarabuste, , 2002
From: Toponyme : Berlin. Dédale - cadastre - jumelage - panorama
Publisher: Tarabuste, , 2002
Dédale – vous êtes ici (10)
Dédale – vous êtes ici (10)
péril d’usure, repartir étrangerà la faveur soudaine, l’irruption
pointée après les perspectives
par l’embrasure où se dispersent
ces contours pétrifiés, recours
des ombres, des lumières perçues
retombées opaques, demi-teintes
sur le lieu dépaysé, introuvable
au territoire graphique, profil
en suspens de la ville, fragments
des vis-à-vis à l’instant, parcours
dans le transit rotatif, la terre
hâtée selon le long des horizons
et demeure le vertige, battement
de cils, l’oeil incertain d’énigme
le lieu sans cesse au proche, loin
vous êtes ici, en dehors du cercle
passant étrange, étranger ainsi
libre usage, marchant nulle part
© 2000, Michèle Métail
From: Toponyme : Berlin. Dédale - cadastre - jumelage - panorama
Publisher: Tarabuste,
From: Toponyme : Berlin. Dédale - cadastre - jumelage - panorama
Publisher: Tarabuste,
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Maze – you are here (10)
danger of wear and tear, leave strangerthanks to sudden favor, irruption
looked out after perspectives
by doorway where these petrified
contours scatter, recourse to
shadows, lights spotted
opaque fall out, half-tones on
disoriented sight, unobtainable
in graphic territory, profile
on hold of town, fragments
of vis-a-vis instant, route taken
in rotating transit, earth hastened
according to length of horizons
and stays dizziness, blinking
eyelash, eye uncertain of enigma
the place continually near, far
you are here, outside of the circle
strange passerby, stranger then
to free usage, going nowhere
© 2000, Michèle Métail
From: Toponyme : Berlin. Dédale - cadastre - jumelage - panorama
Publisher: 2002, Tarabuste,
From: Toponyme : Berlin. Dédale - cadastre - jumelage - panorama
Publisher: 2002, Tarabuste,
Maze – you are here (10)
danger of wear and tear, leave strangerthanks to sudden favor, irruption
looked out after perspectives
by doorway where these petrified
contours scatter, recourse to
shadows, lights spotted
opaque fall out, half-tones on
disoriented sight, unobtainable
in graphic territory, profile
on hold of town, fragments
of vis-a-vis instant, route taken
in rotating transit, earth hastened
according to length of horizons
and stays dizziness, blinking
eyelash, eye uncertain of enigma
the place continually near, far
you are here, outside of the circle
strange passerby, stranger then
to free usage, going nowhere
© 2000, Michèle Métail
From: Toponyme : Berlin. Dédale - cadastre - jumelage - panorama
Publisher: 2002, Tarabuste,
From: Toponyme : Berlin. Dédale - cadastre - jumelage - panorama
Publisher: 2002, Tarabuste,
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