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I first encountered this poem in my younger days, and loved it immediately, reading it over and over again, nearly to the point of memorization. Then it slipped away from me, and many years passed, until now, suddenly thinking of it again, I returned to it. It is a pleasure to encounter words still so familiar after such a long absence. Even if you usually skip over poems you find in random places — I imagine most people do — give this one a read: it gives up its pleasure easily, in one long fluid ecstatic declamation. ******* The Voice of Robert Desnos So like a flower and a current of air the flow of water fleeting shadows the smile glimpsed at midnight this excellent evening so like every joy and every sadness it is the midnight past lifting its naked body above belfries and poplars I call to me those lost in the fields old skeletons young oaks cut down scraps of cloth rotting on the ground and linen drying in farm country I call tornadoes and hurricanes storms typhoons cyclones tid

The Voice of Robert Desnos | Subverbo Skip to content Follow: RSS Twitter Subverbo an organ of The Virginia Institute for More Advanced Study Home About Bloomsday Corey Meatball Uncategorized The Voice of Robert Desnos May 25, 2015 I first encountered this poem in my younger days, and loved it immediately, reading it over and over again, nearly to the point of memorization. Then it slipped away from me, and many years passed, until now, suddenly thinking of it again, I returned to it. It is a pleasure to encounter words still so familiar after such a long absence. Even if you usually skip over

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