vestibule-vaporeux

the ghosts of the risible staircase float in the drolling haze...

rising above the impudence and converting the scintillations

to daze and obfuscate...

[steaming in obscurum on the Rue du Bac, Paris 75007]

niveau-lueur-nébuleux

a flattened moon hovers over the dry industrial artland...

a maleficent eye unwinking, unthinking, purely jinxing luminance...

upon...

"angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..." *

[*line from "HOWL" by Allen GINSBERG, 1926-1997] 

[unspinning lunadisc in the Palais de Tokyo, 13, avenue du Président Wilson, 75016 Paris]

entours-trône-estompé

a baconesque pop-pope perches on the punk-pink throne...

what fetish entozoon soon emerges to empyrean calculations,

to slither under the silky chasubles of phlegmatic apparitions...

[alone with Napoleon's tiny chemise de nuit in the Musée Galliera, 10, Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, 75016 Paris]

béate-boîte-brumeuse

Safe in its Glazed Chamber-

Untouched by Mourning-

And untouched by the Moon-

Lies the meek relic of the Insurrection-

Pillow of Satin - and Roof of Stone!*

the Shadow darkly unmoved,
hangs upon its golden Spot;

the Blessed Blood steeps 
in slowly relinquished layers...
curing to soft rapturous Rot!


[*a re-versing of the first stanza of "216", with apologies to Emily DICKINSON, 1830-1886]

[suspended in the Hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013 Paris]

frigos-flûtes-floues

dark dark flowed the freeze fluid...cold colder coldest no more...

art artful in frost free fridges...conducive conduit art-erial core...

[Les Frigos, 19, rue des Frigos, 75013 Paris]