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Vowels

A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels,
I shall tell your latent births some day:
A, hairy black corset of shining flies
Buzzing around stenches cruel,

Gulfs of dark; E, candors of tents and vapors,
Proud glacier lances, white kings, quivering umbels;
I, purples, spat blood, laughter of lips beautiful
In anger or penitent drunkennesses;

U, cycles, divine vibrating of seas viridian,
Peace of grazings strewn with animals, peace of wrinkles
Alchemy stamps on great studious brows;

O, supreme Clarion full of stridors strange,
Silences crossed by Worlds and Angels
—O Omega, violet beam of His Eyes!

 

 

 

Paris


Al. Godillot, Gambier,
Galopeau, Wolf-Pleyel
—O Robinets!—Leperdriel!

Kirsch, Jacob, Bonbonnel!
Veuillot, Tropmann, Angin!
Gill, Mendès, Manuel,
Guido Gonin!—Breadbasket

Of the Graces! L'Hérisée!
Creamy polish!
Old bread, spiritual!

Ye blind!—then, who knows?—
Constables, Enghiens
For The Home!—Let's be Christian!

 

 

 

The accursed cherub


Bluish roofs and pallid doors
As in a month of Sunday nocturnes,

At the end of town, all quiet
The street is pallid, and it's night.

The street has houses passing strange
Shuttered after the manner of angels.

But, toward a milestone, behold
Running, awful and numb with cold,

A darkling cherub teetering,
Too many jujubes having eaten.

He makes caca and disappears:
But his accursed caca appears,

Under the holy vacationing moon,
Of cess a dirty bloody pool.

 

 

 

Lilies


O balancers! O lilies! Silver clysterpumps!
Disdainful or works, disdainful of famines!
Dawn fills you up with detergent love!
A sweetness celestial butters your stamens!