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This Much and More

Djuna Barnes on

Published in Poem Of The Day

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!


About this poem
"This Much and More" was published in "All-Story Cavalier Weekly" on Sept. 4, 1915.

About Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., on June 12, 1892. She was an American novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and visual artist, as well as an important figure in the Modernist movement. Her works include "The Book of Repulsive Women" (1915), "Ladies Almanack" (1928) and "Nightwood" (1937). Barnes died in New York City on June 18, 1982.

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This poem is in the public domain. Distributed by King Features Syndicate




 


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