Free Union

"L'Union libre" by Andre Breton, June 1931

My wife with hair of wood fire
With thoughts of heat lightning
With an hourglass waist
My wife with the waist of an otter in the tiger's teeth
My wife with a mouth of cockade and of a bouquet of stars of the first magnitude
With teeth of spoors of white mice on the white earth
With a tongue of rubbed amber and glass
My wife with a tongue of stabbed host
With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes
With a tongue of unbelievable stone
My wife with eyelashes like the strokes of a child's writings
With eyebrows like the rim of a swallow's nest
My wife with temples like slates of a greenhouse roof
And steam on windowpanes
My wife with shoulders of champagne
And of a fountain with dolphin heads under ice
My wife with matchstick wrists
My wife with fingers of chance and ace of hearts
With fingers of mown hay
My wife with armpits of marten and beechnuts
of Midsummer Night
Of privet and of scalare's nest
With arms of seafoam and of sluice
And of mixing the wheat and the mill
My wife with legs of rocket
With movements of clockwork and despair
My wife with calves of the elder tree pith
My wife with feet of initials
With feet of bunches of keys with feet of Java sparrows drinking
My wife with a neck of unpearled barley
My wife with a throat of Golden Valley
Of rendezvous in the very bed of the torrent
With breasts of night
My wife with breasts of marine molehill
My wife with breasts of crucible of rubies
With breasts like the specter of the rose of the dew
My wife with a belly like a giant claw
My wife with the back of a bird fleeting vertically
With a back of quicksilver
With a back of light
With a nape of rolled stone and wet chalk
And like the fall of a glass just drained
My wife with hips of nacelle
With hips of chandelier and of arrow feathers
And of ribs of white peacock feathers
Of insensitive scales
My wife with buttocks of sandstone and asbestos
My wife with buttocks like a swan's back
My wife with buttocks of spring
With a sex of gladiolus
My wife with a sex of placer mining and of platypus
My wife with a sex of seaweed and ancient sweets
My wife with a sex of mirrors
My wife with eyes full of tears
With eyes of purple panoply and of magnetic needle
My wife with savanna eyes
My wife with eyes of water to drink in prison
My wife with eyes of wood always under the ax
With eyes of water level of level of air earth and fire