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Metropolitan
Metropolitan
From the indigo straits to Ossian's seas,
on pink and orange sands washed by the vinous sky,
crystal boulevards have just risen and cr…
Movement
Movement
A winding movement on the slope beside the rapids of the river.
The abyss at the stern,
The swiftness of the incline,
The overwhelmi…
Lives
Lives
I.
O the enormous avenues of the Holy Land,
the temple terraces!
What has become of the Brahman
who explained the proverbs to me?…
May Banners
May Banners
In the bright lime-tree branches
Dies a fainting mort. But lively song
Flutters among the currant bushes.
So that our bloods may laugh …
L'Idole.. Sonnet Du Trou Du Cul
L'Idole.. Sonnet Du Trou Du Cul
Obscur et froncé comme un oeillet violet
Il respire, humblement tapi parmi la mousse.
Humide encor d'amour qui suit la fu…
LINES, an excerpt from
LINES, an excerpt from
When the world comes down to this one dark wood
Before our four astonished eyes...
To a beach for two faithful children...
T…
Jeanne-Marie's Hands
Jeanne-Marie's Hands
Jeanne-Marie has strong hands; dark hands tanned by the summer,
pale hands like dead hands. Are they the hands of Donna Juana?
Did t…
Le Forgeron (The Blacksmith)
Le Forgeron (The Blacksmith)
Le bras sur un marteau gigantesque, effrayant
D'ivresse et de grandeur, le front large, riant
Comme un clairon d'airain, ave…
Historic Evening
Historic Evening
On an evening, for example, when the naive tourist has retired
from our economic horrors, a master's hand awakens
the meadow's harpsicho…
Genie
Genie
He is love and the present because he has opened our house
to winter's foam and to the sound of summer,
He who purified all that we drink and…
First Evening (Première Soirée)
First Evening (Première Soirée)
Her clothes were almost off;
Outside, a curious tree
Beat a branch at the window
To see what it could see.
Friends
Friends
Come, the Wines are off to the seaside,
and the waves by the million!
Look at wild Bitter rolling from the mountain tops!
Let us reac…
Feasts Of Hunger
Feasts Of Hunger
My hunger, Anne, Anne, flee on your donkey.
If I have any taste, it s for hardly anything
but earth and stones.
Dinn! Dinn! …
Fairy
Fairy
For Helen, in the virgin shadows and the
impassive radiance in astral silence,
ornamental saps conspired.
Summer's ardour was con…
Drunken Morning
Drunken Morning
Oh, my Beautiful! Oh, my Good!
Hideous fanfare where yet I do not stumble!
Oh, rack of enchantments!
For the first time, hurrah for…
Evening Prayer
Evening Prayer
I spend my life sitting - like an angel
in the hands of a barber - a deeply fluted beer mug
in my fist, belly and neck curved,
a Gam…
Dawn
Dawn
I have kissed the summer dawn. Before the palaces, nothing moved. The water lay
dead. Battalions of shadows still kept the forest road.
…
Departure
Departure
Everything seen...
The vision gleams in every air.
Everything had...
The far sound of cities, in the evening,
In sunlight, an…
Clearance Sale
Clearance Sale
For what the Jews have not sold,
what neither nobility nor crime have tasted,
what is unknown to monstrous love
and to the infernal …
Conclusion
Conclusion
The pigeons which flutter in the meadow,
the game which runs and sees in the dark,
the water animals, the animal enslaved,
the las…
Cities Vagabonds
Cities Vagabonds
These are cities!
And this is the people for whom these
Alleghenys and Lebanons of dream have been raised!
Castles of wood and cry…
Brussels
Brussels
Boulevard du Régent
July Flowerbeds of amaranths right up to
The pleasant palace of Jupiter. -
I know it is Thou, who is this place, …
Being Beauteous
Being Beauteous
Against a fall of snow, a Being Beauiful, and very tall.
Whistlings of death and circles of faint music
Make this adored body, swelling a…
Blackcurrant River
Blackcurrant River
Blackcurrant river rolls unknown in strange valleys;
the voices of a hundred rooks go with it,
the true benevolent voice of angles: