Tuesday 18 October 2011

I am reading The Collected Dorothy Parker at the moment and yesterday while enjoying some of her poems I came across a couple that where just lovely.

August
When my eyes are weeds,
And my lips are petals, spinning
Down the wind that has beginning
Where the crumpled beeches start
In a fringe of salty reeds;
When my arms are elder bushes,
And the rangy lilac pushes
Upward, upward through my heart;

Summer, do your worst!
Light your tinsel moon, and call on
Your performing stars to fall on
Headlong through your paper sky;
Nevermore shall I be cursed
By a flushed and amorous slattern,
With her dusty laces pattern
Trailing, as she straggles by.

That's my favourite.

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