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.
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: 1915-01-01
Source URL: https://poets.org/poem/love-songs-i