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, by the sun ):

frog

faces,

frog

lust,

frog

bellies in the dust














of theLast 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