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Authors: Francis Ponge
Mute Objects of Expression (14 page)
Overheated shed
Cosmetic lair in summer
Pavilion of aromatic hairpins, where amidst all its brushery with green bristles and long-tooled handles, the wild and noble savage redhead soon dries on rising from the marine or lacustrian bath that steams away by the low-lying shoulder.
Pavilion overheated in summer, all set about by mirrors â where, on deep resilient ground of aromatic hairpins, amid all its brushery with long handles of tooled crimson wood, green-bristled â comes the wild and noble redhead soon to dry on rising from the marine or lacustrian bath that steams away by the low-lying shoulder.
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August 25 â 26, 1940
Pavilion overheated in summer. Elementary stalls all set about by mirrors. In the overheated shade of a dense green-bristled brushery, with its long handles of tooled crimson wood, soon dry on the deep resilient ground of aromatic hairpins each figure rising from the marine or lacustrian bath that steams away by the low-lying shoulder.
The Pine Woods
Alpine brushery set about by mirrors
Their crimson wood handles high-tufted in green bristles
In your warm shadow splashed with sunlight
Came Venus to comb her hair on rising from her bath,
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder
Whence the deep resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent treetops
Their crimson wood handles high-tufted in green bristles
In your warm shadow splashed with sunlight
Came Venus to comb her hair on rising from her bath,
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder
Whence the deep resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent treetops
Variation
The alpine brushery â set about by mirrors â
With crimson wood handles high-tufted in green bristles . . .
On the deep resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent treetops,
In the warm shadow splashed with sunlight,
Soon to dry the nude rising from the bath
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder
Beneath taut-strung ribbons of sleepless weave
With crimson wood handles high-tufted in green bristles . . .
On the deep resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent treetops,
In the warm shadow splashed with sunlight,
Soon to dry the nude rising from the bath
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder
Beneath taut-strung ribbons of sleepless weave
Another
The high brushery set about by mirrors
With crimson wood handles with tufts of green bristle.
In her peignoir, shadow splashed with sunlight,
Soon to dry, Venus on rising from her bath,
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder.
On the deep resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent heads . . .
With crimson wood handles with tufts of green bristle.
In her peignoir, shadow splashed with sunlight,
Soon to dry, Venus on rising from her bath,
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder.
On the deep resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent heads . . .
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Floats the oblique sash of sleepless weave.
An Aspect of Pine Woods
The alpine brushery high-tufted in green bristle
With crimson wood handles set about by mirrors . . .
In its hot shadow splashed with sunlight
Came Venus to comb her hair on rising from her bath.
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder,
Whence the deep resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent treetops.
With crimson wood handles set about by mirrors . . .
In its hot shadow splashed with sunlight
Came Venus to comb her hair on rising from her bath.
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder,
Whence the deep resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent treetops.
Variation
The high brushery, set about by mirrors
With crimson wood handles high-tufted in green bristles . . .
In these peignoirs made of shade splashed with sunlight,
Dry, you vaporous bodies come from the bath,
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder,
On the deep resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent treetops
With crimson wood handles high-tufted in green bristles . . .
In these peignoirs made of shade splashed with sunlight,
Dry, you vaporous bodies come from the bath,
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder,
On the deep resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent treetops
August 28, 1940
The high brushery set about by mirrors
With crimson wood handles high-tufted in green-bristles . . .
In a peignoir made of shadow splashed with sunlight
Came Venus to comb her hair on rising from her bath,
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder . . .
Whence the depth on resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent treetops
With crimson wood handles high-tufted in green-bristles . . .
In a peignoir made of shadow splashed with sunlight
Came Venus to comb her hair on rising from her bath,
Marine or lacustrian, that steams by the low-lying shoulder . . .
Whence the depth on resilient ocher ground
Of aromatic hairpins
Loosed above by masses of indolent treetops
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