Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INTERLUDE, by EDITH SITWELL


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First Line: Amid this hot green glowing gloom
Last Line: And bird-blood leap within your veins.


Amid this hot green glowing gloom
A word falls with a raindrop's boom...

Like baskets of ripe fruit in air
The bird-songs seem, suspended where

Those goldfinches -- the ripe warm lights
Peck slyly at them -- take quick flights.

My feet are feathered like a bird
Among the shadows scarcely heard;

I bring you branches green with dew
And fruits that you may crown anew

Your whirring waspish-gilded hair
Amid this cornucopia --

Until your warm lips bear the stains
And bird-blood leap within your veins.





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