Love Songs (section III)

We might have coupled
In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment
Or broken flesh with one another
At the profane communion table
Where wine is spilled on promiscuous lips

We might have given birth to a butterfly
With the daily news
Printed in blood on its wings.

Credit

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on December 5, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets.

About this Poem

“Love Songs” was published in Vol. 1, No. 1 of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse in July 1915.

Author

Mina Loy

Born in London in 1882, Mina Loy has been labelled as a Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, feminist, conceptualist, modernist, and post-modernist. Known for both her poetry and visual art, she died in Colorado in 1966.

Date Published

01/01/1915