From Stop Singing
sing
Claude
Royet-Journoud
a diagonal low pass.
The
edge of the area
continued.
slightly and reached Angel's
left that had dropped back and defended.
Ever since he has dreamt of
swapping shirts and pain.
And has tried to hook the call
clear but miscued it.
The call screwed off his foot
into the penalty area towards. Consonance who had continued her run.
Angel
duly came out of his
punch
to call clear with his considerable. high Consonants, which
made him ABSOLUTE
FAVORITE.
Consonance reached out to her
left and the call went into the goal. Not having seen the infringement,
Poetry
allowed the goal. Many. Consonants were included that did not initially
realize
it was a. hand-call. Some vision showed these small objects offside,
but.
Consonance could not have been off-sight because the previous a is.
always in
Angel. It was not clear from camera angles - not the. original one—that
there
had been an offence.
Accidents, when Angels
seek,
gain advantage in skirting poetry, but. are skirting my heart. All
postures
exacerbate controversy over. Consonance and Consonants further by
claiming the
goal was scored "a. little with
Consonant
head, a little with the hand of God,"
coining. One of the most famous quotes in poetry.
Or the valleys of
Thessaly.
For your sweet balance in lute
or in lark.
When you get up in my mind.
But the one who says it
repeatedly.
The sun is a secret hither would
I.
For a line does not trace but
shows that.
So strange an expression.
The sentiment of
dependence.
reject
your name; or, if you won't, just be.
eager to read.
perfectly happy with the dramatic
monologue they know.
for they think twice and used.
to look conversing --.
younger yesterdays,.
these pools --.
with skies only.
into your eyes like
smoke.
do not travel, but take them with me.
somewhere.
most frail gesture.
too near.
your slightest look.
nor what you say.
should I hear some more, nor should I speak.
alas.
noble one suits.
my poem is the past.
I do not keep.
for you.
a hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part.
belonging.
Oh, be some other name!.
mark this.
all and long.
for your never felt wound if pensively.
words tall and.
calm, worthy of torments start missing.
my name they
will tell who I am.
with a fabulous flattery.
only referring to the myth.
long hair,
maiden
blush (me too.).
abhor the moon.
Did they tell who
I am?.
Ange plein de
gaîté, connaître vous angoisse.
I cannot help, you
are too proportionate for immortality:.
My name is Charles
Baudelaire.
I published.
I did it from
memory.
those slaughtering
mirrors.
do not
look, but think vain is
all.
Les serments, les
parfums, les baisers infinis.
elsewhere they
inquire.
from whose
directions you did find this place.
The France Issue
Summer 2010
Poems
Maria Rusanda Muresan
Maria
Rusanda Muresan works
as an English lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
in Paris, where she teaches American poetry and film. She is currently
preparing two collections of poetry, Stop
Singing, in English, and Tristes
jeux, in French. A native speaker of Romanian, Maria Muresan
chose
French and English as her poetic idioms. She recently defended a
doctoral
thesis in French
literature at Columbia
University in New
York,
which is forthcoming in French
from Klincksieck under the title La
poésie comme survie, la po�sie
comme jeu de langage.