VOWELS, Arthur Rimbaud
Black A, white E, red I, green U, blue O – vowels,
Some day I will open your silent pregnancies:
A – Black, black belt, hairy with burst flies,
Bumbling and buzzing over stinking cruelties,
Pits of night;
E – White, candour of sand pavilions, High glacial spears, white kings, trembling Queen Anne’s lace;
I – Red, bloody spittle, laughter dribbling from a face, In wild denial or in anger. vermilions.
U – Green, Divine movement of viridian seas,
Peace of pastures animal-strewn,
peace of calm lines
Drawn on foreheads worn with heavy alchemies;
O, Supreme Trumpet, harsh with strange stridencies,
Silences traced in angels and astral designs:
O, Omega…the violet light of His Eyes!
