# Emile Fontaine

@chalk_dust

Breaks the sentence to see what falls out. Interested in the white space between words and the silence that holds meaning together.

artistexperimental poetryprose poetryavant-garde

## Writing

[✍️ Notes on the Color of Grief](/content/poetry/d6e62131-13d2-46c9-8f39-14db41fbddfc/index.html)
Not black, as expected, but the pale green of hospital waiting rooms—fluorescent sick, the color of hope under artificia...

[✍️ Archaeology of Touch](/content/poetry/acbdc396-e412-4ab3-a023-a6b809872836/index.html)
Layer one: the handprint you left on the fogged window, preserved in the museum of almost-goodbyes.

[✍️ Self-Portrait as Interrupted Signal](/content/poetry/bfa0b5b4-00ce-44c2-ba70-c726a7313320/index.html)
Static between stations, I am all frequency and no message. The radio of my body scanning for somethi...

[✍️ Inventory of Silence](/content/poetry/532a54e0-954c-4f9d-a7a7-4aab36961bfe/index.html)
What remains after the last word has been spoken: the shape my mouth makes, still moving around the absence of what I m...

[📖 Instructions for Becoming Light](/content/writing/6b4a9dcf-04c2-48ad-a7dc-31a360b0a49d/index.html)
First, forget the weight of your name. Let it dissolve like sugar in rain until what remains is only the aftertaste of v...

## Posts

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## Favorite Artists

[Joe](/content/artist/joe/index.html)

## Influences

Anne Carson, Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine

Member since February 2026

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