Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LUNAR BAEDEKER, by MINA LOY Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silver lucifer Last Line: Waxes and wanes Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nightmares; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin | ||||||||
A silver Lucifer serves cocaine in cornucopia To some somnambulists of adolescent thighs draped in satirical draperies Peris in livery prepare Lethe for posthumous parvenues Delirious Avenues lit with the chandelier souls of infusoria from Pharaoh's tombstones lead to mercurial doomsdays Odious oasis in furrowed phosphorous the eye-white sky-light white-light district of lunar lusts Stellectric signs "Wing shows on Starway" "Zodiac carrousel" Cyclones of ecstatic dust and ashes whirl crusaders from hallucinatory citadels of shattered glass into evacuate craters A flock of dreams browse on Necropolis From the shores of oval oceans in the oxidized Orient Onyx-eyed Odalisques and ornithologists observe the flight of Eros obsolete And "Immortality" mildews... in the museums of the moon "Nocturnal cyclops" "Crystal concubine" Pocked with personification the fossil virgin of the skies waxes and wanes | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GREEN SEES THINGS IN WAVES by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER WITH A BOTTLE OF BLUE NUN TO ALL MY FRIENDS by MADELINE DEFREES NEAR THE BRIDGE OF SAINT-CLOUD; AFTER ROUSSEAU by NORMAN DUBIE THE BUS STOPPED IN FIELDS OF MISDEMEANOR by NORMAN DUBIE ITALIAN PICTURES: COSTA MAGIC by MINA LOY |
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