Grayfolded Carnival Backdrops

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My turn now.
The story of one of my insanities.
For a long time I boasted that
I was master of all possible landscapes---and I thought the great figures of modern painting and poetry were laughable.
What I liked were: absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, bright-colored prints, old-fashioned literature, church Latin, erotic books full of misspellings, the kind of novels our grandmothers read, fairy tales, little children's books,
old operas, silly old songs, the
naive rhythms of country rimes.
I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic.
I invented colors for the vowels!
A black, E white, I red, O blue,
U green. I made rules for the
form and movement of every
consonant, and I boasted of inventing, with rhythms from within me, a kind of poetry that
all the senses, sooner or later,
would recognize. And I alone
would be its translator.
I began it as an investigation.
I turned silences and nights into words.
What was unutterable, I wrote down.
I made the whirling world stand still.
--Arthur Rimbaud
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song of the birds
condor with ravens