Lunar Baedeker
A silver Lucifer
serves
cocaine in cornucopia
To some somnambulists
of adolescent thighs
draped
in satirical draperies
Peris is livery
prepare
Lethe
for posthumous parvenues
Delirious Avenues
lit
with the chandelier souls
of infusoria
from Pharoah's tombstones
lead
to mercurial doomsdays
Odious oasis
in furrowed phosphorous
the eye-white sky-light
white-light district
of lunar lusts
Stellectric signs
WING SHOWS ON STARWAY
ZODIAC CAROUSEL
Cyclones
of ecstatic dust
and ashes whirl
crusaders
from hallucinatory citadels
of shattered glass
into evacuate craters
A flock of dreams
browse on Necropolis
From the shores
of oval oceans
in the oxidized Orient
Onyx-eyed Odalisques
and ornithologists
observe the flight
of Eros obsolete
And "Immortality"
mildews
in the museums of the moon
NOCTURNAL CYCLOPS
CRYSTAL CONCUBINE
Pocked with personification
the fossil virgin of the skies
waxes and wanes
- Mina Loy
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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2 comments:
Great poems. I really love Mina Loy, my favourite poem of hers being 'Three Moments in Paris': http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoebrigley/entry/from_three_moments/
I also like her feminist manifesto!
I thought you had written it. I had no doubt you had. It's great.
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