Thursday, October 13, 2005
Beauty by Breton
DreamsBut the light returns
the pleasure of smoking
The spider-fairy of the cinders in points of blue and red
is never content with her mansions of Mozart.
The wound heals everything uses its ingenuity to make itself
recognised I speak and beneath your face the cone of shadow
turns which from the depths of the sea has called the pearls
the eyelids, the lips, inhale the day
the arena empties itself
one of the birds in flying away
did not think to forget the straw and the thread
hardly has a crowd thought it fit to stir
when the arrow flies
a star nothing but a star lost in the fur of the night
New York; Oct 1943
Taken from Andre Breton, Selections, University of California Press, 2003.
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