Photo: Today it is windy in Nelson. I find the wind unreasonable, frankly, almost outrageous. I have chosen a winter photo in Outaouais, which better expresses the harshness of winter and the wind.
We were waiting for the words
While listening to the wind
It spoke with its own words
In gusts and bravadoes
Is it really useful?
I wanted to know
What is the point of it?
but it had its own purpose
a windy logic
photo : Ile d’Orléans en hiver
photo : obviously, a photo from a winter different from the ones we have in Nelson, but the feeling is the same. Ottawa River. This ghostly vision spontaneously inspired a(n almost) rhymed poem in French (not so much in English, though)
We found our ghosts/
where we had placed them/
in the river of our dreams/
where they fell asleep/
listening our lies/
but the music was nice/.
*put online in 2024, edited in 2025
words will be put together
that mean nothing, or so you think
However when she will say
"don't forget to wear a hat
when it is cold", it will mean "I love you"
and that will be good enough
for the day
*first published in 2023, edited, or I should say, totally transformed in 2025
photo: between Nelson and Auckland, between heaven and earth
we imagined a place, a refuge, a moor,
where we would walk barefoot
where the wildest thoughts
would soften a little and
where we would astonish the clouds
with asilence between the two of us
