Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader. Nicole Brossard

      the split: desire’s reflection is like this

      a lure thrown out in vain

      spinning through space until

      the ‘creature’ says: my blood doesn’t fit

      this version or excerpt anymore

      to save her provocative skin

      to lose reason the rush the goods

      spread out by the mirror if you attempt

      a moon’s discretion between your thighs

      the liquid outcome

      vulva – lu e(t) vu – read and seen

      in reality you undress her skin

      and take it all in

      feigned – the entire bid / fiction –

      the injury’s intuition (the injured)

      her tongue speaks with a hole the one licked

      or it’s a place to perplex the delicious expert

      she trembles in love inversely

      her memory perplexes the slut story museum

      woman / voting booth / stretch marks: what a beautiful baby!

      she soaks without quoting, very private

      

      that tends to flow

      the day drenched in ink

      green or that moment you open your robe

      egress illustrated

      circadian today and

      the moon your condition of rhythm sister

      with syrupy insides she depletes

      the planet of corridors filled with crossroads

      my wife aroused a vow circling your passionate neck

      her ass and thank goodness dissolves the

      first stone or this erosion of the dismissal

      for she cheats all lost time by playing

       opposite

      silently on the outskirts of town

      without context (swallowing but concise)

      so she says: that’s senseless

      or irony of the after-effect the abolished

      without history and mother tongue in hospital

      convulsively white this body speaks

      perhaps to amuse herself underground

      but at heart charged without restraint

      she start over from the bottom of the page

      filled with the unleashed scents that undress her:

      flying

      drying up or fictive the liar opens

      her fist this abduction all confined by the masculine

      spread out

      

      her withdraw – it depends – at what price

      and the beyond amends her history

      you get wet and dry up in pleasant parallels

      drifting when the net is lifted

      or concealed down to your feet you put on the brakes

      and yet this pretext intervenes with your hand as process

      a gripping sift of the inside or a return to self

      this morning shifting history with a silent e

       La Partie pour le tout

      1975, tr. 2010

       CALLIGRAPHER / IN DRAG

      from Daydream Mechanics

      tr. Larry Shouldice

       December 1970

      text that can be read horizontally as before different in the number of coincidences of the fragments assigned as such to the role will be silenced for revealing herself through the written matter itself fragmentation of meaning fragment this space for what is written glimpsed the spectacle of the written. before the onlooker before the cross-dresser to the birth of ambiguity (aperture from which surges forth life) before the spectacle finally a calligrapher duplicates without erasure before the cross-dresser the mark left vague in the atmosphere left mark curve in movement gesture of writing. calligrapher in drag intentional double usage of one on / by the other double surface multiple purpose. before the text travestied with insistence and connotation

      , in the comma sense scar line drawn backwards to its centre (lower belly) and licit mobile link and justification for what follows, in the case in which the visible the slope of the calligraphy produces quick impatience unanimous thus I provoke riot I in the plural person cause insist riot, opening up of meaning if multiple travesty threat subversive false eyelashes face new incidence and checkmate

      the allusions understood the threshold passed to choose an original form of allusive denunciation for with finger with arms to make the facts precise incoherent the system including a meaning a place in terms of denunciation a void. return to the first version the indecent illegible spectacle repulsing / attracting in sight and in knowledge before inevitable travestied and anonymous initiators.

      

      the commentary is printed thus in intensifying fervour the inclination of the text legible in its beginnings this commentary limited in itself the present in the flexibility of muscles invested with a hard male resistance in drag (pleasure and confusion) in the transgression

      cancelled everything before this to haunt your look rather in form of abbreviation outlawed

       Méchanique jongleuse

      1973, tr. 1980

       JUNE THE FEVER

      from Lovhers

      tr. Barbara Godard

      i read the text of your project. i am writing you now from a sidewalk café on St. Denis where i have been sitting for an hour. it is a fine day and all about there is an air of reality. this café is called La Cour, it has a little yellow fence.

      i don’t know why, but rather than reading what you have written, i’d like to imagine it. i picture you obsessively in the midst of writing excessively as if nothing could stop you – so, you never worry about anything. when you quote, however, you must stop, it seems to me.