MIDSUMMER
by: Lee Timberlake
- HAVE need of love,
- I am parched,
- And I am barren.
- I await the thunder of your demand,
- While I crave the lightning shock
- Of your embrace
- To plough my hardened breast
- To f lower.
- I must have the rainfall
- Of your kisses
- Increase to torrents
- To saturate my sterility;
- So the hot sun
- Of your smile
- Will burst my bud-bonds,
- For I must become fecund
- That I may sing,
- I have need of you!
"Midsummer" is reprinted
from Poetica Erotica. Ed. T.R. Smith. New York: Crown
Publishers, 1921. |
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