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Tom Hibbard (translator)

The Hovel

The pipe organ had no midwife
But the house cracked
And my mother was the lodger
Where I burned myself whole

The doves of distant fires
Hurl their crazy flames
At the deceitful breast
Where a dream tied me up

But later my bride broke out
On the skin of pure linen
Where the too-small solar tent
Imprisoned all our delights


--Antonin Artaud (1928)