Jean Toomer Flame Poems

  • 1.
    Whoever it was who brought the first wood and coal
    To start the Fire, did his part well;
    Not all wood takes to fire from a match,
    Nor coal from wood before itâ??s burned to charcoal.
    ...
  • 2.
    There is no transcience of twilight in
    The beauty of your soft dusk-dimpled face,
    No flicker of a slender flame in space,
    In crucibles, fragility crystalline.
    ...
  • 3.
    Hair-braided chestnut,
    coiled like a lyncher's rope,
    Eyes-fagots,
    Lips-old scars, or the first red blisters,
    ...
  • 4.
    Hair--braided chestnut,
    coiled like a lyncher's rope,
    Eyes--fagots,
    Lips--old scars, or the first red blisters,
    ...
Total 4 Flame Poems by Jean Toomer

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