Songs to Joannes

I

Spawn   of   Fantasies

Sifting the appraisable

Pig Cupid   his rosy snout

Rooting erotic garbage

"Once upon a time"

Pulls a weed   white star-topped

Among wild oats    sown in mucous membrane

I would    an    eye in a Bengal light

Eternity in a sky-rocket

Constellations in an ocean

Whose rivers run no fresher

Than a trickle of saliva

 

These are suspect places

 

I must live in my lantern

Trimming subliminal flicker

Virginal    to the bellows

Of experience

          Colored  glass.


~Mina Loy