Yannis Rentzos ‘THE HEAD OF ARTHUR RIMBAUD’

from Divertente and other poems

The head of Arthur Rimbaud
prefaced by a knife

In the neck, the cheeks
the sweaty knees

uncontrollable, in brackets

Rising vowels in stutters
usurps your exophthalmia

Suddenly you flick your hair and it kills

You declaim Molotov cocktails in the snow