Jeanne d'Orge. Defeat. Alfred Kreymborg, ed. 1920. Others for 1919

Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

Defeat

By Jeanne d’Orge


THE PIT is lined sharply with stones—
My bones are broken too…
This would be hard to bear
if I had not plucked the feathers of dead dreams
to pillow it.	5
I shall not move for a long while—
I am out with stars
since that last encounter
and I need no companions
other than the strange slim shapes of laughter	10
that come twisting out of tears
and circling close
to touch my wounds
with rainbow breath.