Jeanne d'Orge. To a Fumbling Lover. Alfred Kreymborg, ed. 1920. Others for 1919

Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

To a Fumbling Lover

By Jeanne d’Orge


THE SEA would know the way to go about it
The moon has taught the tide a thousand
subtle ways of mastery
so that it neither lingers nor makes haste
knows when to come, when to go—	5
when to drown the rebel shores in cool sweet rapture
when to leave them naked and alone.
I envy colored rocks and all obliterate sands;
it would content me to be lost
in a swirl of shining waters—	10
half light—half song…
Why are you not the sea?…