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Storm by H.D.

Storm by H.D.

Published On Sunday, November 28, 2010. Under: 1900s, HD.
Storm  by H.D. You crash over the trees, you crack the live branch— the branch is white, the green crushed, each leaf is rent like split wood. You burden the trees with black drops, you swirl and crash— you have broken off a weighted leaf in the wind, it is hurled out, whirls up and sinks, a green stone.
Sea Lily by H.D.

Sea Lily by H.D.

Published On Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Under: 1900s, HD.
SEA LILY by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Reed, slashed and torn, but doubly rich— such great heads as yours drift upon temple-steps, but you are shattered in the wind. Myrtle-bark is flecked from you, scales are dashed from your stem, sand cuts your petal, furrows it with hard edge, like flint on a bright stone. Yet though the whole wind slash at your ...
HOLY SATYR by HD

HOLY SATYR by HD

Published On Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Under: 1900s, HD.
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) HOLY SATYR by HD Most holy Satyr, like a goat, with horns and hooves to match thy coat of russet brown, I make leaf-circlets and a crown of honey-flowers for thy throat; where the amber petals drip to ivory, I cut and slip each stiffened petal in the rift of carven petal: honey horn has wed the bright virgin petal ...

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