VII

Frog faces,
frog lust,
frog bellies in the dust,



till unexpected flame gave you another name:

( there’s the siren wail again,


May 15;


by the clock,

near 6,

that’s 4 by the sun ):

frog faces,
frog lust,
frog bellies in the dust



of the Last Judgement Day :

when winter-fog is gone,
the frogs sit in the sun,



and now you can see strawberry-leaves

on a crown,
a lion,
a unicorn:

— H.D., from Last Winter, 1950