Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GERTRUDE HOFFMAN GIRLS, by EUGENE GRINDEL


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THE GERTRUDE HOFFMAN GIRLS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gertrude, dorothy, mary, claire, alberta
Last Line: Marvels, you dance upon the springs of the sky!
Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul
Subject(s): Girls


Gertrude, Dorothy, Mary, Claire, Alberta,
Charlotte, Dorothy, Catherine, Emma, Ruth,
Louise, Margaret, Ferral, Harriet, Sarah,
Nude Florence, Margaret, Thelma, and Toots:

Night-birds, fire-birds, rain-birds all,
Trembling heart, hidden hands, and eyes to the wind,
You show me the movements of light;
You exchange a clear glance for the spring,

The turn of your waist for the whorl of a flower,
Boldness and danger for your shadowless flesh;
You trade love for the thrills of a swordflash
And welling laughter for the promise of dawn.

Your dances are the frightening gulf of my dreams
And I sink and my fall makes eternal my life,
The space beneath your feet grows vast and vaster;
Marvels, you dance upon the springs of the sky!





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