The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

TRISTAN TZARA

XIV

your eye is large
lord in the draperies
your eye pursues me
your eye is a ship’s size excuse me
send medicines
stone

XIV encore

lover’s heart open in the stream and electricity
let’s look at the point
it’s always the same
hairs grown around it
it begins to skip
to get larger
to rise toward the final flashes
surrounding it slides
quickly
quickly
rolling
nocturnal
turnings

XV

among the pains there are organisms and rain
your fingers

TURNINGS

XVI

gulf
your heart will soar doing such lofty things
on the shiver stairs huddled together like the tree
between the reddish flashes
you go away
roads
branches
lick the snowy hips