He recognizes the pachydermatous skin of the beggar boys in the dark and wrinkled envelope of the old oaks.

Beside the bifurcations of the branches there are yawning holes, puckered orifices in the bark, simulating emunctoria, or the protruding anus of a beast.

In the joints of the branches there are other visions, elbows, armpits furred with grey lichens.

Even in the trunks there are incisions which spread out into great lips beneath tufts of brown, velvety moss.
"Everywhere obscene forms rise from the ground and spring, disordered, into a firmament which satanizes.

The clouds swell into breasts, divide into buttocks, bulge as if with fecundity, scattering a train of spawn through space.