Dour river
Jaded with monotony of lights
Diving off mast heads….
Lights mad with creating in a river… turning its sullen back…
Heave up, river…
Vomit back into the darkness your spawn of light….
The night will gut what you give her.

(C) Lola Ridge
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Lola Ridge

• Interim
• Histrionics
• Monologues
• Time-stone
• The Fire
• Mother
• North Wind
• Secrets
• The Alley
• The Dream
• A Memory
• Portraits
• Art And Life
• Jude
• The Fog
• Betty
• An Old Workman
• Cactus Seed
• Comrades
• Celia
• Brooklyn Bridge