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while living, love __interior’s inverse __ air, on the Earth __ a tree, for example __ V  __ slowness, primordial, attraction __ Fe __ in the heart, of the Earth __ I know not, prior __ from where, from what meteorites __ our busts, advance __ before us __ Up, Down __ Bottom, Top __ we are not alone __ we hold together __ in packs, words, magnets __ twenty-five, equals seven __ hearts beat __ Charm, Strange __ we vibrate __ our letters, irises, strings __ ten, indivisible, non-hierarchical our numbers __ we are __ photons, intermediaries, in transition __ two, three __ dense and tender, the immense, canyon __ Kr __ of hidden, Greek __ He __ noble gases and rare earth, parent rocks __ flanks, branches __ arms, alongside bodies __ exposed, virtually inert, framed __ we move, everything moves, our gangues __ snow, the clouds __ is this a region __ diaphanous, beauty, provisionary __ our specks, roots, quarks __ we displace ourselves __ with these plates, a reserve of negatives, 4 x 5 __ our flavours, electric charge, the species __ source of radiance, of emission, spectres __ kept out of contact with the air, mostly humid __ Ir __ scarce on the Earth’s surface __ white, titanium __ improbable, upended, on the path __ to be __ in the planet’s nucleii __ in pure or alloyed form __ our poles, desert-like, gold-coloured __ Zr __ from Arabic, from Persian __ hyacinth, in scarab beetles __ancient, Egyptians __ fertile, the brillance __ of your eyes, water, oblique __ the light, us, the elements __ viewers, among the known bodies __ through the viewer, haemoglobin, through the eyelids __ I recognize __ the mystery, the connection, uninhibited __ I am not afraid of rupture __ of corrupting myself, double r __ second, third, genders __ types, others we are __ medium __ I am

Chantal Neveu, Writer - 2010 - Angela Carr, Translator