Songs to Joannes, VII
My pair of feet
Smack the flag-stones
That are something left over from your walking
The wind stuffs the scum of the white street
Into my lungs and my nostrils
Exhilarated birds
Prolonging flight into the night
Never reaching — — — — — — —
Credit
This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on January 9, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.
About this Poem
“Songs to Joannes, VII” appeared in Others III, no. 6 (April, 1917).
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
01/01/1917