My airplane in flames my castle flooded with Rhenish wine
my black iris ghetto my crystal ear
my rock hurtling down the cliff to smash the country policeman
my opal snail my air mosquito
my quilt of birds of paradise my hair of black foam
my tomb burst open my red grasshopper rain
my flying island my turquoise grape
my wreck of cars mad and careful my wild flowerbed
my pistil of dandelion projected in my eye
my tulip onion in the brain
my gazelle wandering off in some moviehouse
my casket of sun my volcano fruit
my laugh like a hidden pool where distraught prophets drown
my flood of blackcurrant my nightshade butterfly
my blue waterfall like a tidal wave making springtime
my coral revolver's mouth drawing me like a gleaming well
glassy as the mirror where you watch the hummingbirds of your gaze escaping
lost in a linen show framed with mummies
I love you
--Benjamin Peret
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| Peret with the a few of the other titans of Surrealism: Breton, Eluard, Tzara. |
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| A painting by his wife, Remedios Varo. |
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