for Claude Royet Journoud
                                                                                   and Anne-Marie Albiach

1

A sort of empty number
relations
never more present
all you
around you
let yourself
it moves but that's my fault
yes yes you said across the words

            

2

When did you
what a funny
he didn't anywhere
that is he lived and before
he found then why with you
he seemed and he
could stand the center of
to his surprise
more than she ever
awakened a distance with

            

3

the pressure not to live in
but streets and incessant
we're not
not really
would we accept
alone
to be not altogether

            

4

Parallel open so we could
against one another
turn
you know there is
between attention
a place never direct
nor an object to stay near
impersonal attention you don't with
extreme

            

5

Latent agreement not to
but suddenly we've been
always
movement toward presence
a secret
turns away
calmly

            

6

Give back what disappears
as if a detour in forgetting
could

            

7

The point which sustains
waiting
nearly too present
I continue toward
what you say

            

8

A sense of forgetting
finds rest and stays
you won't
not even once
watch my words refer
where breath is gathered
across what
would really be up to
the impossible
if you'd remember

            

9

Kept fightling
doubtless
but against I know
this presence
I'll never
but even less
the force of doubt

            

10

When we embrace
talking approaches because
in the space of
your presence
what you have to consider:
its
not coming closer

            

11

Strange light doesn't stop
exclusion
what makes you
it's between us
it's what
left a stranger to conviction
shaking your head you
want to say

            

12

Can't escape in the same
movement you
couldn't
in that case you know
if I'm my
presence
I don't but perhaps
you

            

13

This suspicion she
called her presence
contact with which she didn't
and never convinced of
the difference
she has her what attracts you
is between

            

14

I can't stand with
waiting to be present
not only as it would have been
decision out of reach
and because I openly
you too lost
in waiting

            

15

And this desire to tell you
I haven't yet been able to
the same motion as in the case
you knew I wanted
wouldn't you
refuse perhaps together with
as consequence

            

16

In part however rapidly
you were attracted
don't leave
it would
the first time of your

            

17

It's not the same as if
the time the lack
will it last if you
doesn't leave much of an idea of
unbearable when

            

18

You have to talk
unnoticeably
in question which
waiting you could in a way
perhaps already
asking carries what could be
the end of waiting
can't be asked

            

19

There is as in the answer to
nothing which measure the limit
would you
while on guard
yes I think but is it still
depends on

            

20

Did you know between them
something to keep before
throws a shadow
the moment we had
tacitly

            

21

The force you didn't directly
which you should
as with this presence clear to itself
but did you not allow yourself to
if the same word makes a screen
it's up to in what

            

22

But we had what isn't and what tries
movement as if turned to see
more than this turn
and away
this lack permits to
opening an absence

            

23

Makes us wait makes possible
the pressure of ending
without you know
even in waiting
even if it's meant to
disengage
in the end
our waiting

            

24

You can't make this distinction
it's very strong and nothing hinders
because your presence in its
always I mean
dispersing always
and separating

            

25

Always again waiting
if each time
you think you can't
the characteristic
why did you
from which is excluded

            

26

Opens onto a question and doubles
you might have
can't be adjourned in this wait
you wouldn't
by your side
yet you were there
breathing

            

27

Trying to tell
not important
you neither
you shouldn't
but you see all the time
when you're there it's not quite
what you see once and for all

            

28

And why how different
would go as far as not
answering yes to me too
I felt I couldn't
except that I don't make
distinctions

            

29

And this indifference
visible
which makes precise
what in you both
attraction
thought which doesn't
let ignore
what isn't thought
without forgetting more suddenly

            

30

Rather than at two removes
from an impression
but there is each time
the memory
and from this difference
it too immobile
we share the forgetting
from word to

            

31

I don't remember not inside me
but you do
one of our difficulties
facing you however
I recalled you wanted
just help
onloy you couldn't nearly what I

            

32

But you'd been waiting
perfectly a wall
which I this seriously
when at that point as you see me
trying to make more invisible
my invisible

            

33

You ask if I come what for
perhaps to find
you don't know how lightly
and that adds I realize to
the unknown perception
I'm not you know different
with what I fear is not the way
a secret less than its approaching

            

34

You have a feeling that
however you are
if you weren't
the secret you can't stand that word
but to discover there's nothing
when you look
a word completely visible
and only visible

            

35

And presence
but on the contrary
open without
being open when you speak of it
because you speak of it
weighs heavily