Arthur Rimbaud

This is the picture that is often used for “Illuminations” which is a collection of poems by the poet referred as “Arthur Rimbaud” in Smith’s memoir.
Let me share one of his many prose-poems from “Illuminations.”

“Graceful son of Pan! Round your brow crowned with flowers and berries your eyes, precious spheres, move. Stained with brown lees, your cheeks are hollow. Your eye-teeth gleam. Your breast is a cithara, chords chime in your pale arms. Your pulse beats in that belly where a double sex sleeps. Walk, at night, gently moving that thigh, that other thigh and that left leg.”

Strong and mystical word choices with prophetic tone (meaning, it sounds like apostrophe or an excerpt from anathema/archaic sacred text).

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