Language Event Two
Two Poets. Questions and answers are always independent.
(Suzanne Muzard, Andre Breton:)
What is a kiss?
A divagation, everything collapses.
What is daylight?
A naked woman bathing at nightfall.
What is exaltation?
It’s a blob of oil in a brook.
What are eyes?
The night watchman in a perfume factory.
What is hovering between Suzanne and me?
Great black threatening clouds.
What is a bed?
A fan quickly opened. The sound of a bird’s wing.
Translation from the French by Marcel Jean
From Poems of the Millenium, edited by
Jerome Rothenberge and Pierre Joris