The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

ANNIE LE BRUN

gently
like a bird’s feather
The taste of childhood
rises to my mouth
—pierre joris

Tomorrow Will Be the Same Day

Tomorrow
will be the same day
I will have lived but a few instants
forehead glued to the window pane
to welcome dusk’s merry-go-round
I will have stifled a cry
because nobody will have heard it
in this desert
I will have curled up
in fetal position
on the seat of my old solitude
I will have waited
for my heart to be half empty
to detect there a taste of bile
I will have seen myself
the next day
waking up and going about
Atrociously similar
—pierre joris

Annie Le Brun 1942–

rennes, france

A

poet, essayist, polemicist, and editor, Le Brun joined the Surrealist

group in 1963. Her literary heroes are libertines of all epochs, notably

Alfred Jarry, André Breton, and the Marquis de Sade. It was Le Brun

who, along with others such as Paul Éluard, drew the connection between Sur-