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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STARVELINGS, by FLORINE KITTS
First Line: A pair of starvelings, hunger - mad, we two
Last Line: A pinioned dream you fondle in your hand.
Subject(s): Desire; Hunger
First Line: A pair of starvelings, hunger - mad, we two
Last Line: A pinioned dream you fondle in your hand.
Subject(s): Desire; Hunger
A pair of starvelings, hunger-mad, we two
Have loosed ourselves to feed, to strike our wake
Night upon night ablaze with flame of blue
From the burning crucible of love, to break
Into transcendent fire of deathless glow.
Assuage the ravaged fever of my throat
That's parched by barren waiting, sere and slow,
For kisses which have rivered my blood and smote
My heart with fertile silences bereft
Of utterance. I am love-illumed
But hunger-stricken still. What have I left
Of me desire of you has not consumed:
My life, a sea that surges on your sand,
A pinioned dream you fondle in your hand.
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