Portrait of Andre Breton with spectacles, 1924

(Author unknown)


All the Schoolgirls Together

Often you say making a mark in the earth with your heel as
          the wild rose blooms in a bush
Wild one seemingly made only of dew
You say The whole sea and the whole sky for a single
Victory of childhood in the country of dance or better for a

          single
Embrace in a train corridor

Going to the devil with rifle shots on a bridge or better

Yet for a single timorous word
Such as must be said while gazing at you
By a blood-stained man whose name goes far from tree to
          tree
Who keeps going in and out among a hundred birds of snow
Where then is it nice
And when you say it the whole sea and the whole sky
Scatter like a cloud of little girls in the yard of a strict
          boarding school

After a dictation in which The heart takes

Was perhaps written The heart aches

-Andre Breton