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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEXICAN DESERT, by MINA LOY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The belching ghost-wail of the locomotive
Last Line: Belabour the cinders of twilight
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
First Line: The belching ghost-wail of the locomotive
Last Line: Belabour the cinders of twilight
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
The belching ghost-wail of the locomotive
trailing her rattling wooden tail
into the jazz-band sunset.
The mountains in a row
set pinnacles of ferocious isolation
under the alien hot heaven
Vegetable cripples of drought
thrust up the parching appeal
cracking open the earth
stump-fingered cacti
and hunch-back palm trees
belabour the cinders of twilight. …
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