Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ONE FLESH, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES


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First Line: If there were modern magic, she would turn
Last Line: Her madness with his dusty yellow cloak.
Subject(s): Love


If there were modern magic, she would turn
Into a bullet, cursing, in her pride,
The puny element that let her burn
So hot for impact, so ungratified.
For she knew what she wanted -- she would die
Against a rock too strong for her to move,
In battered ripping bitter ecstasy
Kissing the fierce stone body of her love.

But he would be a dull-green lump of sponge,
Soft as wet weeds across her rage, to heal
The threshing fever, check her savage plunge,
Embed in ooze the desperate crying steel --
-- Or else an ashy heap of sand, to choke
Her madness with his dusty yellow cloak.





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