"les détroits
les isthmes
les îles nénuphars
les lacs de mercure
les processions d'îles
les marécages
les caravanes d'îles sur la mer d'étain
les criques
les joncs pâles"
"Archipel", Claude Simon
The sun
winding the yellow bindweed about a
bush; worms and gnats, life under a stone.
The pitiful snake with its mosaic skin
and frantic tongue. The horse, the bull
the whole din of fracturing thought
as it falls tinnily to nothing upon the streets
and the absurd dignity of a locomotive
hauling freight —