Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WIDOW'S JAZZ, by MINA LOY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white flesh quakes to the negro soul Last Line: Of unpeopled space Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Chicago; Jazz; Music And Musicians | ||||||||
The white flesh quakes to the negro soul Chicago! Chicago! An uninterpretable wail stirs in a tangle of pale snakes to the lethargic ecstasy of steps backing in to primeval goal White man quit his actin' wise colored folk hab de moon in dere eyes Haunted by wind instruments in groves of grace the maiden saplings slant to the oboes and shampooed gigolos prowl to the sobbing taboos. An electric crown crashes the furtive cargoes of the floor. the pruned contours dissolve in the brazen shallows of the dissonance revolving mimes of the encrouching Eros in adolescence The black brute-angels in the human gloves bellow through a monstrous growth of metal trunks and impish musics crumbles the ecstatic loaf before a swooning flock of doves. Caravan colossal absentee the substitute dark rolls to the incandescent memory of love's survivor on this rich suttee seared by the flames of sounds the widowed urn holds impotently your murdered laughter Husband how secretly you cuckold me with death while this cajoling jazz blows with its tropic breath among the echoes of the flesh a synthesis of racial caress The seraph and the ass in the unerring esperanto of the earth converse of everlit delight as my desire receded to the distance of the dead searches the opaque silence of unpeopled space. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POEM FOR DIZZY by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK AT A CONCERT OF MUSIC by CONRAD AIKEN STREET MUSIC by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN GOLDEN MOMENT by JACK ANDERSON TIME SIGNATURE by LINDA ANDREWS ITALIAN PICTURES: COSTA MAGIC by MINA LOY |
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