Best Salle Poems

New tenant, new tile, 
Got me Christopher
Columbus,
Didn't come to 
Harm us 

Or else, I tag him 
Vincent Price,
Twice as nice in 
Dracula Drag.

A message here...

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Solstice Burning

Distant footsteps trodding through a suburban graveyard.
The Black Dahlia reposes silently
pondering the moment with a carved grin.
A tan La Salle pulled up that morning
when...

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Lost in the Translation

“Donnez-moi un verre de vin”

My accent seemed strange at the Paris café

They brought me an entire carafe of wine

And I drank it...

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"Write your dreams," Carolyn Kizer told us
in a long-ago poetry workshop in Paris.  I would 
like to, Yes, follow that instruction, but on wee-
hour...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s DEER HUNT - la Chasse aux cerfs by T. Wignesan

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I rise from the bed, make coffee, 
drink the obligatory first cup, sending 
me racing to the "salle de bain" to begin
a day of eliminating...

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H 
St.Charles Parish 
When René Robert Cavelier sieur de La Salle claimed this vast country of 
Louisiana for King Louis XIV on April 9, 1682,...

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Cathedrals in tea cups. Jingle jangle playtime then. Golden slippers on a carpet of custard. Slip slide. Drip. No droop. Flavoured water is never fake....

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Translation of « On est les oubliés » (They/We are the neglected and forgotten lot)
by the songster-poet Gauvin SERS
(For the last two years, this young...

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This place is mine especially in the spring.
Distressed and stranding my soul in guilt.
Sometimes as I sit here, I hear the bells ring.
Of the schooner,...

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Il etait une chambre
Plein d'amour et d'amitie
Cette chambre est vivante 
Avec un battement du coeur
Elle a quatre murs plainnes du photos de ces enfants 
La...

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it all started on a nothing day
one where the sun shines just so
not too hot, not too cold, like the tea
that stirred easy in the...

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combien de temps cela prend-il pour une connexion
entre deux personnes à se gâter?
de la déshydratation de la
dépression qui a conduit l'un à cet endroit
où l'électricité...

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et ô combien rapidement nous oublions nos sens
lorsqu'ils tombent, le déclenchement et de tomber dans le giron
de quelqu'un qui nous délices fou,
dont les yeux de...

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THAT WHICH PROVOKES OUR INNERMOST
     lèvres pouty luxuriante et les hanches 
CRAVING---THAT WHICH SENDS US INTO A
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