Harry Crosby Dark Poems
- 1. Quatrains To The Sun
I
A sunfort flourished in my sunless heart
Beyond the Sun. Here in a tower apart
The sunbirds of my lady's eyes were caged
... - 2. Magic Formula
What heavens opened and blazed,
What sisters virtuous,
What arrows sprang to mark,
The trees so terrible and dark,
... - 3. Poem For The Feet Of Polia
they have walked through the gateways
of my eyes
they have climbed the mountains
of my body
... - 4. Firebrand
What is your feeling about the revolutionary spirit ofyour age, as expressed, for instance, in such movements as communism, surrealism, anarchism?
The revolutionary spirit of our age (as expressed by communism, surrealism, anarchism, madness) is a hot firebrand thrust into the dark lantern of the world.
In Nine Decades
a Mad Queen shall be born.
... - 5. Fragment
Moon of leaves,
Moon of the falling leaves,
To you I bring the slippers
of the sun.
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