Vowels

Black A, White E, Red I, Green U, Blue O: vowels.

Someday I’ ll explain your bourgeoning births:

A, a corset,; black, hairy, buzzing with flies

Bumbling like bees around a merciless stench,

And shadowy gulfs,; E, white vapors and tents, proud

Glacial peaks, white kings, shivering Queen Anne’s lace;

I, purples, bloody spittle, lips’ lovely laughter

In anger or drunken contrition;

U, cycles, divine vibrations of viridian seas;

Peace of pastures sown with beasts, wrinkles

Stamped on studious brows as if by alchemy;

O, that last Trumpet, overflowing with strange discord,

Silences bridged by Worlds and Angels:

-       O the Omega, the violet beam from His Eyes!

Arthur Rimbaud