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Alexandra Crette [French Guiana / France]

    Songs of Dawns-Americas Occult Odysseys that ceaselessly come to us by snippets   written a thousand years ago by new men   erased at the pace of waters by bearded, guardian gods –   Barbarians.     What barbaric words will sing the infinite delicacy of the opossum’s walk, or the cabin boys’ transverse flute? What language can wipe the past slaughters?     I don’t know anymore   I want to write a huge legend and upholster the wrong side of the forest with these dead voices     May I tell you that which I couldn’t experience? Which spell to cast as I dive in the copper-colored water of the cove? What was I trying to delete, to wash out from my thighs, the frame of which was troubled by water?     I watch as the flat tints of the rain season settle   Shamelessly   I pick the acid cherries brought by December’s damp fogs   Two drops of the blood of that invincible warrior of m...