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