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