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Cover illustration: “White Slinky Army Shorts” by Walter Ruhlmann. First published in Otoliths, Austral Winter 2011. Olivier le Lohé

[à la banquise de la banlieue]

Volodymyr Bilyk

Eight Corr 1-8

Perrin Langda

Tetris Alaska Lettre d'amour à mon congélateur

Fern G. Z. Carr

Holocaust Geneaology Ransom Note Balanced + Well, Well-Balanced

Pamela Johnson Parker

Cave Midwife's Song: Parietal Art

Amanda Earl

Three Vispos

James B. Nicola

At the Museum, or Temptation Probability The Monster Void Fly On Roman Traffic

J.J. Steinfeld Contributors' Biographies

Tumbling Down the Existential Steps


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[ à la banquise de la banlieue Olivier Le Lohé

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Le graffite glisse et grise la neige

Oxymore ĂŠloge d'inexistence

Bien plus prĂŠsent en mon absence

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Affront corporel Hanche contre hanche les pas

changent s'échangent Autour les yeux du corps à corps accordés aux rythmes

duel le tango Les doigts s'effleurent La chevelure tangue saccadée La buée expire glissent s'agrippent

du duel corporel lèvre le cil

Pas à hanche la paume

torse à torsader pupille le corps

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Dans le bruit des yeux,

ces fréquences sur un pied d'égalité découvrent l'espace constellé

de vide

d'omission

de néant du temps

Temps important une puissance incolore révélant sa

Force que la prose torture

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Blancs tes derniers brins de cheveux, Blanc le fond de tes yeux, Blanche ta peau où les pigments s'enfuient. Blanc le fond de la baignoire, Blanche la porcelaine des chiottes enfin elle l'était au début... Blanc l'ensemble des plafonds, la voûte mise à nue. Blanc, si l'on additionne tous les spectres de lumière. Blanc, c'est aussi la soustraction de toutes les couleurs. Blanc ton sein, ton vin... Blanches tes dents après fluor ou détartrage. Blanc d'œuf Blanc en neige Blanche la neige qui glisse au fond de mes bottes. Blanche la neige qui s'engouffre dans ma bouche. Blanche la neige parsemée dans mes cheveux. Blancs mes cheveux sous la neige, j'ai l'air d'un vieux. Blanche la photo en contre jour. Blanc et noir, les couleurs se disputent la page. Blanc le vers à soie, Blanc comme le filtre de Marlboro light entre tes doigts. Tout sauf blancs les cheveux de ma sœur, Blanc le cœur, tout simplement c'est si il... Blanc le passage piéton, non ? Blanche la ligne qui délimite le non sens. Blanc le rail, snirf, dans le nez. Blanc l'argent provenant de la poudre, Blanches les mains qui détiennent l'argent provenant de la poudre, Blanches leurs chemises tachées. Blanche la toute première vision. Blancs les draps des évadés. Blancs les lits dans les cliniques. Blancs les carreaux des sols, murs et plafonds des hôpitaux. Blanches les blouses des infirmières, Blancs les vestes des infirmiers, Mais blanc le sourire des infirmières, Blancs leurs ongles sortis de la french manucure. Blanc quand le soleil éblouit. Blancs les mouchoirs que je remplis. Blanc une fois sur deux le P cul. Blanc ton sourire triste, Blanche ta voix tremblotante, Blanc le vide entre deux êtres, 7


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Blanc le temps entre elle et lui, lui fuyant. Blanc le silence qui s'éloigne. Blanches les chaussettes de sport relevées jusqu'au mollet, Blanches les tennis du dimanche. Blanche la lumière dit on. Blanches les photos du grand père, Blancs les cheveux en brosse du grand père, Blanche la brosse à dent du grand père, qui ne sert plus. Blanches les moustaches du chat. Blanche la page, enfin plus vraiment maintenant. Blanche la tranche d'un livre neuf. Blanche la nuit dernière Et blanc le doliprane avalé au réveil. Blanc le sucre, depuis quand déjà? Blanches les pages depuis un siècle ou deux pas plus. Blanches les culottes classiques, en voit-on encore? Blancs les soutiens-gorges assortis, je ne m'en souviens pas mais Blanc, sûrement, celui de maman. Blancs et poivres les cheveux de maman, Blancs les sacs en tissu de ma mère, Blanches les assiettes chez elle, Blanche sa voiture. Blanche la corne de l'éléphant, Blanc aussi, l'ivoire des bijoux Blancs comme la sclérotique des éléphants. Blanche l'encre invisible. Blancs les cirrus, les cumulus, les cirrocumulus. Blanc le clown pierrot à la triste mine. Blanches les voiles des bateaux, Blanches les fumées du bateau de grand père ? Blanche la fumée de la pipe de grand père, Blanche la fumée sortie de la bouche de grand père. Blanc l'ours, brun?

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O Du collège au lycée, on me l'a rabâché, Pi que multiplie R, et lui même, au carré Chiffre en mètre carré la zone hachurée, Enfermée d'un fin trait, sans lui, reste cachée. C'est la définition attribuée à l'aire Ou l'espace à l'étroit dans cette bague en or Qui ensuite étouffé, est violé par ce corps, Déshonoré, frustré, sans le moindre brin d'air. Le vide emprisonné crée le chiffre nul, Le plus ou moins que rien, cet absolu néant. Invention abstraite des maures mécréants Qui comprirent avant tous sa force de calcul. L'incolore encerclé, ce peut être deux noires. Son harmonie lente mesure une moitié D'une simple ronde. Le silence en entier Peut enfin s'écrire, s'énoncer et se voir. Au sein de l'alphabet, quinzième s'utilise, Se griffonne et s'emploie, oh à tout bout de mot. Définissant des sons connus depuis marmot, La voyelle expulse de l'air qui vocalise. Peur omniprésente devant cette couleur, L'artiste expose l'art afin qu'elle s'efface; Et pourtant, disparu, blanc se voile la face. Il se grise, triste, dépouillé de lueur.

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A la banquise de la banlieue perdu au beau milieu un banc

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Moi

Individuel

Entre en Moi

Rature Moi L’art en Toi

Un défi duel

Auteur en émoi

Taureau surmoi

Indivisible Je entre les cornes

Invisible jeux Et le forcado se vautre

entre autre Enorme

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Mémoire blanche

aux pas feutrés fuyants

disperse

_ De son sourire tire un long trait fin _

Mémoire aride Puis sera brise

désertique jusqu'arrachant sa peau dissipée la paupière ouverte

mais le vide s'accroche à mes lèvres

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Frères, fils regards tristes dénigrent la faim sans vergogne Ils observent

vide à terre Marcadet Ordener

l'ordre règne

La mare qu'il a déversée s'efface

Peu à peu frères, fils cessent s'envolent Et le suspendu

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tous perchés

frère, fils son regard morne alignés pas un mot

ailes repliées

mais il reste mis à sac

s'en vont

sans suite...

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Dans l'utérus des rails l'aiguille glisse sur le disque Les cris enrayés jusqu'au sixième évitent

les funérailles ?

Le gramophone grésille et braille le tango Débraillés

on dort au fond du vagin

Poire de lumière Orange la ferraille Disparue Les trompes mitraillent l'air

de jazz

Petit train rentre, et croise le transilien : "Visitez Visitez les lignes des profondeurs" L'aiguille sillonne les murailles des trains "Salut

t'es russe vas vas à jeun Entre rail et tronc pont Pompes! Dis lui Dis lui t'y aimes"

L'aiguille stoppe

le temps perd sa contenance.

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Une page blanche Vide Comme ce dimanche Au creux de tes hanches.

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C CNC CNANC CNALANC CNALBLANC CNALANC CNANC CNC C

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Volodymyr Bilyk Eight Corr 01 – 08 Volodymyr Bilyk was interviewed by Steven Fowler for the online magazine Maintenant and his work appeared in issue 98. Here I reproduced the information email sent by Fowler to let us know about the publication of this interview online. At the heart of a new Ukraine, as poetically as politically, the work of Volodymyr Bilyk, and it’s worldwide repute, as is tied to the new possibilities of technology in the 21st century as it is the quality and innovation that defines it. Bilyk is the new face of a nation whose poetic history is as often entrenched as its political, and his groundbreaking visual, minimalist, conceptual, sound and artpoetry has been published across the globe, due in no small part to his willingness to embed himself within internet culture and its potentialities. Moreover, his immediacy as a poet, as evident in his poetics as in his colloquially eloquent, unpretentious mode and manner, reveals itself as the expression of an individual willing to commit utterly to the ideal of democratic freedom in his homeland. This interview is conducted during the unyielding protests, and the resultant government violence and oppression, wracking the Ukraine in late 2013 / early 2014, of which Volodymyr Bilyk, the 98th respondent of the Maintenant series, is a central and formidable part. http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-98-volodymyr-bilyk “Q - As we finish this interview, on February 19th 2014, Europe awakes to the news that yesterday was the bloodiest day in the battle for Ukraine’s democratic future, with 26 dead by latest news estimates. There is the sense now that these protests, lasting months already will not just fizzle out and be swept away, like so many others have in Western Europe and America over the last few years. What is the feeling in Kyiv towards this and the immediate future? A - I can describe it as “We shall overcome!” and “No pasaran!”. It is “the end of something” and “It's the beginning of a new age”.... At the foot of the interview there are multiple links to Volodymyr’s work online, I recommend you check it out, including this, previously published on 3am magazine http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/volodymyr-bilyk & here is a link to one of Volodymyr’s recent statements on the Maidan protests http://blutkitt.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/volodymyr-bilyk-statement-collaborations.html & here, published almost exactly 3 years ago, my Maintenant interview, number #53, with another powerful Ukrainian poet, offering his own voice of resistance to the current protests, Yuri Andrukhovych http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-53-yuri-andrukhovych I would recommend reading Yuri’s recent piece for the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/opinion/love-and-hatred-in-kiev.html?_r=0

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Perrin Langda – Tetris

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Perrin Langda – Alaska

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Perrin Langda – Lettre d'amour à mon congélateur

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Fern G. Z. Carr – Holocaust Genealogy

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Fern G. Z. Carr

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Fern G. Z. Carr – Balanced + Well  Well-Balanced

Na + Cl  NaCl K + F  KF

Sodium and chlorine yield sodium chloride, add potassium to fluorine for potassium fluoride,

Ca + H2CO3  CaCO3 + H2 Cu + H2SO4  CuSO4 + H2

calcium and carbonic acid form calcium carbonate, copper and sulphuric acid become copper sulphate,

6 Mg + P4  2 Mg3P2 2 H2O + O2  2 H2O2

magnesium plus phosphorus make magnesium phosphide, water and oxygen create hydrogen peroxide,

2 Rb + H2C2O4  Rb2C2O4 + H2 6 Li + 2H3PO4  2 Li3PO4 + 3H2

rubidium changes oxalic acid to rubidium oxalate, lithium plus phosphoric acid make lithium phosphate,

Si + O2  SiO2 2C + O2  2CO

mix silicon with oxygen for silicon dioxide, combine carbon with oxygen for carbon monoxide,

2 Ag + 2 HNO3  2 AgNO3 + H2 4 C2H6O + 2 C2H4O2  4 C3H8O2

silver transforms nitric acid into silver nitrate, ethanol and acetic acid beget ethyl acetate,

4 Al + 3 O2  2 Al2O3 2 Na + 2H2O  2 NaOH + H2

aluminum and oxygen produce aluminum oxide, sodium and water result in sodium hydroxide.

Balancing equations may be formulaic  but coupled with poetry it will never be prosaic.

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Pamela Johnson Parker – Cave Midwife's Song: Parietal Art

here are ………………………………………………………………….mouths and ………………………………………………………………..lips here are gaps ……………………………………………………………and grooves here …………………. are fissures ……………………….with their ochre …………….show here are blood-red…………… smudges here are …………teeth and bone hear us pray ……to you earth o, mother ………. birth us more horses more and more how we petition ………...you earth, we beseech you to open your womb whelm ………….up ….horses horses horses we do not moan for men ………….we …do not chant for children or crops do not rant …………for …..rain do not beg for bison we ask only for what's ………………….needed we hold up bear grease flame and offer …………up… smoke ……..sputtered words we ask you, o mother how we ………..may …help……………you through this difficult ……..birth …………o…….. mother……………we want …………………………to ride

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Amanda Earl – Three Vispos Vispo One

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Amanda Earl – Vispo Two

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Amanda Earl – Vispo Three

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mgv2_76 | Visual Poetry and Asemic Writing| 04_14 James B. Nicola – At the Museum, or, Temptation The guide is here

The guard is there

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James B. Nicola – Probability

W hen he brought in the board with beads which rolled down a sort of pyramid to study probability, and they lined up in columns at the bottom in an upside-down V formation like a bar graph with the center the highest, the edges the lowest, and gave us the equation that defined the curve of the beads, I took the thing and tilted it the other way and said, Look, we’re all headed the same place, 100% probability. We agreed that a life was probably like two tilts of the boar d.

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James B. Nicola – The Monster Void Mmmm Ahhh Maw Maw Ee

Awe My

Ow Miaow

Ma

Mama M’awe Yawn Mawn Ah Awe On— Stir! Ma

Aye On

Stir

My . . . . . . Monster

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James B. Nicola – Fly

He tickles me for the last time, I swear,

and fetch the swatter, then pick up my book

and sit back down. By then he is not there

but every itch imagined makes me look

before I scratch. And then I think I hear. . . All right, I’m ready for him. Where’s the buzz coming from now? I dare him to appear. He won’t do what I tell him to because he is a fly. Then suddenly he

d r o p s down to the carcass of another fly like Romeo in the tomb, about to die himself, if not to suck the dead one dry that he might live. As suddenly, he stops and clasps his hands and holds them up to pray, as if a fly could. . . . Then he’s on his way

dissolving, buzz and all, into the skies. It’s difficult for me to murder flie

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James B. Nicola – On Roman Traffic It appears the Barbarians —woops—

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J.J. Steinfeld – Tumbling Down the Existential Steps

talkative devils shrewd misprints brazen typos flagrant errors miniscule miscues wrong turns human frailty honest mistakes clumsy blunders mispronounced prayers misdiagnosed ailments miscast roles misaligned planets silent gods

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Biographies Volodymyr Bilyk is a Ukrainian writer and visual artist. His books include: a book in the series This is Visual Poetry thisisvisualpoetry.com/?p=1151, book of asemic short stories CIMESA https://archive.org/details/Cimesa, SCOBES derekbeaulieu.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/new-from-no-presstwo-fom-ukraine/ and CASIOS PAY-OFF PEYOTE www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/pdfs/casios pay-off peyote.pdf . His work was published in such magazines as 3am, Altered Scale, The New-Postliterate and many others. Fern G. Z. Carr is a lawyer, teacher and past president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A member of and former Poet-in-Residence for the League of Canadian Poets, she composes and translates poetry in five languages. Carr is a 2013 Pushcart Prize nominee and has been cited as a contributor to the Prakalpana literary movement in India. She has been published extensively world-wide from Finland to the Seychelles. Some of her poetry was assigned reading for a West Virginia University College of Law course entitled “Lawyers, Poets, and Poetry”. Canadian honours include: an online feature in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper; poetry set to music by a Juno-nominated musician; and her poem, “I Am”, chosen by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate as Poem of the Month for Canada. One of Carr’s haiku is even included on a DVD sent to Mars on NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. www.ferngzcarr.com Amanda Earl's visual poetry has appeared in the Last Vispo (Fantagraphics, 2012), in a special issue of Evening Will Come http://www.thevolta.org/ewc33-jsmith-intro-p1.html & as chapbooks published by Puddles of Sky (Canada), avantacular press (USA), in Dan Waber's this is visual poetry series. Her site is AmandaEarl.com or find her on Twitter @KikiFolle. Perrin Langda est né en 1983, Perrin Langda vit à Grenoble et écrit principalement de la poésie. Depuis 2012, il a réalisé une trentaine de publications dans diverses revues telles que « Les Tas de mots », « Le livre à disparaître », « Revue Métèque », « Lélixire », « Cohues », « 17 secondes », « Gelée rouge »… Son blog : http://upoesis.wordpress.com Olivier Le Lohé né banlieusard, vivant entre Paris la chapelle et Béhuard, il rature le quotidien noir sur blanc. Impressions d’expressions rythmées ou rimées ; cisaillant les syllabes ; contraignant, de fond en comble, fonds et formes ; l’expression des émotions fait naître le mot puis la motivation au poème. Il est actuellement publié dans plusieurs revues (Xéros, Népenthès, Les Tas de mots, Libelle…), a gagné le prix printemps des poètes du concours 2013 des éditions Robin, et a été sélectionné pour le concours Dis-moi dix mots de la région Rhône-Alpes et celui de la marie d’Ayen. Un nouveau projet, en cours ; la mise en place d’une revue de poésie : Revue Méninge. Revue Méninge, une tempête d’arts poétiques renouvelée sur le net tous les trimestres ! Une revue poétique où l’art graphique se conjugue à l’écriture. Pour en savoir plus n’hésitez pas à visiter son site : revuemeninge.free.fr Pour en découvrir d’avantage : o.lelohe.free.fr James B. Nicola has had over two hundred poems appear in publications including Tar River, The Texas Review, The Lyric, and Nimrod. A stage director by profession, his book Playing the Audience won a CHOICE Award. He also won the Dana Literary Award for poetry, was nominated for a Rhysling Award, and was a featured poet at the New Formalist in 2010. His first chapbook of poems, Still, was published in 2012 by Stasia Press. Pamela Johnson Parker's chapbooks are Other Four-Letter Words and A Walk Through the Memory Palace, which won the Qarrtsiluni Prize. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous journals, most recently in Iron Horse, Alligator Juniper and Caesura. She works as a medical language specialist, teacher of creative writing, and free-lance editor. Her most recent editorial project was as assistant editor for Language Lessons, Volume I, which is Third Man Records' first foray into the world of literary publishing. J. J. Steinfeld is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and playwright who lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published fourteen books, including Disturbing Identities (Stories, Ekstasis Editions), Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized? (Stories, Gaspereau Press), Would You Hide Me? (Stories, Gaspereau Press), An Affection for Precipices (Poetry, Serengeti Press), Misshapenness (Poetry, Ekstasis Editions), and A Glass Shard and Memory (Stories, Recliner Books). His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals internationally, and over forty of his one-act plays and a handful of full-length plays have been performed in North America.

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