A four-handed collaboration, Reines-compost offers an epistolary refuge where detritus, lint, heterogeneous bodies, broken ecosystems, desperate attempts at repair and resigned flinching intermingle. In the form of dialogue, the poems play with the possibilities of invention, fabrication and the reordering of thought through the radical force of friendship. Connecting with and caring for others opens up the page to a plurality of voices that join together to find their place in the noise, forming a plant-like, singing choir from among the debris of the world.
mon petit gâteau-vermicelle arc-en-ciel, comment vas-tu?
je suis là
je fais pousser le soutien d’une main solide
ici je creuse
découvrant avec joie les petits morceaux
de lettres que tu plantes dans le sol
des boules fripées que je colle
à mes bras et à mes jambes
je les ai laissées pour ça
elles poussent comme végétaux
tout près :
les roches du milieu gardent leur fraîcheur
sous les lourds tapis, deviennent graines
nous sautons les carreaux
notre corps, sous vide, germe
Authors: Rosy L. Daneault and Camille St-Jacques Couture
Publisher: Du Noroît
Publication date: September 11, 2023
Number of pages: 144
Language: French
A four-handed collaboration, Reines-compost offers an epistolary refuge where detritus, lint, heterogeneous bodies, broken ecosystems, desperate attempts at repair and resigned flinching intermingle. In the form of dialogue, the poems play with the possibilities of invention, fabrication and the reordering of thought through the radical force of friendship. Connecting with and caring for others opens up the page to a plurality of voices that join together to find their place in the noise, forming a plant-like, singing choir from among the debris of the world.
mon petit gâteau-vermicelle arc-en-ciel, comment
