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Chantal Neveu
Translated from the French by Erín Moure

before there's blood there's water
the burning desire to walk
together
on the Mountain
spontaneously
our sexes
separated
called upon
wrists
chosen
our palms
rich
the hours
our throats
on equal footing
the mirror
our embodied plenitude
a frame of trees
the light

it's major

our hearts take form before our hemispheres

so it is with our connection

we have no need to speak

life is long

beautiful

we have a wall
against which
the sky's the same
unique

               in living

                             love

the inside in reverse
the air
a tree
for example
V
a slowness
primordial
attraction
Fe
at the heart
of the Earth
I don't know
before
from where

from which meteorites

                                haut
                               
up

                                           bas
                                           
down

                                                          dessous
                                                         
bottom

                                                                             dessus
                                                                             
top

                                                                                            we are not alone

we stand
in packs
magnets
twenty-five
Charm, Strange
we vibrate
our letters
the irises
the strings
ten
indivisible
our names
our busts
without hierarchy
photons
intermediaries
in transition
two
three
the immense
canyon
dense and tender
Kr
from the Greek
hidden
He
gas and rare earths
noble
bedrock
the flanks
the branches
the arms
the length of bodies
exposed
nearly inert
framed
we move

                everything moves

                               our gangues

                                             the snow

                                                           the clouds

                                                                          it's a region?
from the book THIS RADIANT LIFE / Book*hug Press
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Chantal Neveu (Montreal) on EcoPoetry Now


"And when one takes last enough time, something can happen, an event, a sequence — unexpected. This phenomenon, without precedent, makes possible so much. To persist. Vibrate. Move. Resist. Founder. Transform. Separate. Shine — or not. In the breath of words are sounds, sensations, thoughts, meanings, objects, actions, passions, questions — random, rendered, phrased, fractals, ellipses, textualities, poems."
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