Love Songs (I) 

Spawn of fantasies
Sitting the appraisable
Pig Cupid            his rosy snout
Rooting erotic garbage
“Once upon a time”
Pulls a weed        white star-topped
Among wild oats sown in mucous membrane
I would             an eye in a Bengal light
Eternity in a sky-rocket
Constellations in an ocean
Whose rivers run no fresher
Than a trickle of saliva


There are suspect places


I must live in my lantern
Trimming subliminal flicker
Virginal             to the bellows
Of experience
                               Colored glass.
Credit

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on February 16, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.

About this Poem

“Long Songs (I)” was published in in the July 1915 issue of Others.