FOR RIMBAUD Could it be, that from the start, the thing he sought, this demon-angel, was always just outside the page That, after swimming the length of the alphabet, with fine gills and deranged senses, he created an opening for others but a trap for himself? If so, then slipping through those watery bars was an imperative, a chastened mysticism - and freedom to write in the air: to be human

 

 

For Rimbaud

Yahia Lababidi