Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROPERTY OF PIGEONS, by MINA LOY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pigeons doze Last Line: To peer into a vast transparency Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. | ||||||||
Pigeons doze, or rouse their striped crescendos of grey rainbow a living frieze on the shallow sill of a factory window. Pigeons arise alight on vertical bases of civic brick whitened with avalanches of their innocent excrements as if an angel had been sick; all that is shown to us of bird-economies, financeless, inobvious as the disposal of their corpses. Pigeons make irritant, alluring music; quilled solfeggios of shrill wings winnowing their rejoicing, cooing fanaticism for wooing. Their dolce voices dotage. Too and fro, frowardly they live burnishing each other's gorgeous halters in the feathery drive of preliminaries to their marriages. Pigeons disappear, their claws, a coral landing-gear, dive for the altar-stair to their privacies a slice of concrete fallen on a cornice leading into darkness; the slit adjacence of houses where the careesive dusts, the residue of furnaces upholster the gossamer festoons of intestate spiers for nuptial furniture Pigeons through some conjurous procedure appear to reappear upon the altar-stair at startling instants in the immature torsos of their giant infants; timid and unflown stark of plume naive in nativity to peer into a vast transparency. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ITALIAN PICTURES: JULY IN VALLOMBROSA by MINA LOY ITALIAN PICTURES: THE COSTA SAN GIORGIO by MINA LOY LOVE SONGS TO JOANNES by MINA LOY THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 1. ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT by MINA LOY APOLOGY OF A GENIUS by MINA LOY STARRY SKY OF WYNDHAM LEWIS by MINA LOY |
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