Cuckoo in the Arts (poetry)
From Robert Frost's Banjo : Today’s poem is by Robert Desnos , a marvelously lyrical poet who was very much a part of the Surrealist movement in the 1920s, but who later broke with the Surrealists (& in particular André Breton). I think you'll agree that “Cuckoo” presents a lovely, fairy-tale like dreamscape. The title might be translated as “Cuckoo-Clock,” (because "coucou" in French also means the clock) but this isn’t the primary meaning, which simply refers to the bird. Of course, as I believe Eberle used to tell her writing students, “if you have a radiator & leopard skin pants, you already have a jungle,” so course you have a cuckoo clock once you have a cuckoo." Cuckoo It was all as if in a childlike picture The moon wore an opera hat that eight reflections ricocheted off across the surface of ponds The ghost dressed in a natty shroud Was smoking a cigar at the window of his room At the castlekeep's top story Where the sagacious crow told th...