story/line

1

English spoken in the kitchen
and Latin with the ant on the floor – and why not?

2

on the school road catch
the stoic toad the unlimited world
carrying a bit in my only pants 

3

in the showroom: lady & small pieces    many positions
like words
but not too much
(trouble spots in the half-light)

4

face a face
double click
your tongue my
gode – what is this thing called
love on the sofa?

5

just you and mi
fig tree growing in the shade
a haystack including a needle is only available in French
tenderly cheek to

6

(recto) early autumn    big promo at Week-end Park have a good leaf made in China
(verso) Black Friday  +  white spirit  =  to be or not to be in (flammable)

7

I âme flesh and what else
aiming at a target and hitting the other
– bingo?

8

have seen blood in the bowl
morning surprise a present
perfect for un
known gods

9

midnight in the nude no
clouds but sound and furious struggle to
cut the nails of the right hand

10

stop writing  >  let’s go to Abyssinia
don’t turn back to eye girls
use your 2 feet in the desert
straight ahead

11

please wait here for the next station
let alone (in fact it’s a dark match)

12

open air grave
if absent rose rose
bouquet off
long voyage 

The France Issue

Summer 2010

Poems

Bruno Fern

Bruno Fern has published texts in print journals (Le Mâche-Laurier, Petite, Action poétique, Rehauts, N 4728, Boudoir,  L’Animal – and forthcoming in Fusées) and online on Sitaudis, remue.net, les cahiers de benjy, plexus-s.net, mots_tessons, Hapax, publie.net et RUNBOOK. He has published three books: 111 points de contrôle (Elne, France: Voix Editions, 2007), Cabine double (Neuilly, France: Editions Ragage, 2009) and the online book cheval porteur (publie.net, 2008). He also performs public readings and regularly writes reviews in journals such as Sitaudis, Poezibao, remue.net, Libr-critique and in the print journal CCP. A new book, Des figures, is forthcoming from Editions de l'Attente.