A Poem a Day Series 2019 – Day 14

This Much and More Djuna Barnes, 1892 – 1982

If my lover were a comet
Hung in air,
I would braid my leaping body
In his hair.

Yea, if they buried him ten leagues
Beneath the loam,
My fingers they would learn to dig
And I’d plunge home!

 

This poem is in the public domain.