DENISE: A Collage Poem by Andre Breton

(This collage by André Breton, made up of phrases cut out from newspapers and assembled to make up a poem, was pasted into a copy of his book “Les Pas Perdus” which is now in private hands.)

Denise

Your eyes

The loveliest spot in France

Three stars on a

Submarine

Reveal

The harvest

Of turners

                                                                        For love of you

                                                                        It seems

                                                                        These things exist

You have gained in knowing

The sea

                                                                                    The sea

A bowl molded on the breasts of

1,000,000

Young women

(Translated by Mitchell Abidor)