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September 3, 2020

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Djuna Barnes was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, on First the air is blue and thenit is bluer and then green and thenblack I am blacking out and yetmy mask is powerfulit pumps my blood with powerthe sea is another storythe sea is not a question of powerI have to learn aloneto turn my body without forcein the deep element. We are, I am, you areby cowardice or couragethe one who find our wayback to this scenecarrying a knife, a cameraa book of mythsin whichour names do not appear. A light, my windows gleam, Soft, flaring its squares of redI loose the ache of the wilderness And long for the fire instead. Has not one in the dark funereal Heard foot-fall fearful, born of no mans tread, And felt the wings of death, though no wing spread And on his cheek a tear, though no tear fell And a voice saying without breath Farewell!, See also:Eccentric & Morbid Quotes by Djuna Barnes. ''Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone elseand must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?'' Required fields are marked *. The dark comes up, my little love, and dyes Your fallen lids with stain of ebony, And draws a thread of fear tween you and me Pulling thin blindness down across your eyes And far within the vale a lost bird cries. They gave her hurried shoves this way And that. Shall that cast out the echo of this place? Of her first published collection,The Book of Repulsive Women (1915), Djuna Barnes said: My first book of poems is a disgusting little item., When, much later (1952) a publisher asked to reprint some of her early work, Barnes responded: I feel it is a grave disservice to letters to reissue merely because one may have a name for later work or for that unfortunately praised earlier work, or for the purpose of nostalgia or history which might more happily be left interred.. repr. There is no comment submitted by members.. Poems are the property of their respective owners. They brought her in, a shattered small Cocoon, With a little bruised body like A startled moon; And all the subtle symphonies of her A twilight rune. What loin-cloth, what rag of wrongUnpriced?What turn of body, what of lustUndiced?So weve worshipped you a littleMore than Christ. The night comes down, in ever-darkening shapes that seem To grope, with eerie fingers for the windowthen To rest to sleep, enfolding me, as in a dream Faithmight I awaken! the thing I came for:the wreck and not the story of the wreckthe thing itself and not the myththe drowned face always staringtoward the sunthe evidence of damageworn by salt and sway into this threadbare beautythe ribs of the disastercurving their assertionamong the tentative haunters. Phenomenal Woman, Still I Rise, The Road Not Taken, If You Forget Me, Dreams I came to explore the wreck.The words are purposes.The words are maps.I came to see the damage that was doneand the treasures that prevail.I stroke the beam of my lampslowly along the flankof something more permanentthan fish or weed. Then, lift your head and bark.Its just the call of the lonesome place, The winds and the housing dark. Yet thick within our hair The dusty ashes that our days prepare. Faithwhat darkness! Djuna Barnes - 1892-1982. I go down.Rung after rung and stillthe oxygen immerses methe blue lightthe clear atomsof our human air.I go down.My flippers cripple me,I crawl like an insect down the ladderand there is no oneto tell me when the oceanwill begin. search. Though undated, these poems were from the period between 1910 1920. You too know, old fellow? Though only Suicide appeared in the Repulsive collection, the four other early poems by Djuna Barnes that follow illustrate the morbid voice that became a hallmark of her writing style. The feathery ash is fluttered; there upon the pane, The dying fire casts a flickering ghostly beam, Then closes in the night and gently falling rain. *This post contains affiliate links. The flame of your red hair does crawl and creep Upon your body that denies the gloom And feeds upon your flesh as twould consume The cold precision of your austere sleep And all night long I beat it back, and weep. Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038, worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty, And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair. Then I grew a little, picked plantain in the yard; Now I dwell in Greenwich, and the people do not call; Then I plated pepper-seed and stamped on them hard. Though undated, these poems were from the period between 1910 1920. Three paces down the shore, low sounds the lute, The better that my longing you may know; Im not asking you to come, Butcant you go?

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