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First line: WIND! Wind!
Original publication
Benjamin DeCasseres, “Wind,” Life, August 9, 1919 (poetry bibliography).
Category Archives: Poetry
Threshold
Works · Poetry
By Benjamin De Casseres.
An elfin thought on the marge of my mind,
Like a glittering butterfly flown from a
drownéd sky,
Or like a sudden strain of windy music heard at
the edge of a star—
An elfin thought on the marge of my mind
That touches me with innuendoes of past ecstasies
And whistles from its puckered heart wild airs
Learned in the Bedlams of spiritual unreason.
Copyright, 1920, by Benjamin De Casseres.
Original publication
Benjamin De Casseres, “Threshold,” The Sun, Books and the Book World, January 11, 1920, p. 4. The index additionally identifies section 6; section number unverified.
The Sea
Works · Poetry
By Benjamin De Casseres.
I AM the Sea,
Sower of lightnings, breeder of rainbows,
Screeching and yowling like a Titan new born.
I rove like a hyena from the cellars of earth
To the plinth of the heavens,
Swinging the starlight in my censers of wind.
I fill up the clouds till they rain on the heavens,
And a word from my mouth makes food out o’
humans,
The while I yawp and I rave and I lambaste
Gibraltars.
Yea, I am the Sea, the Walt Whitman of elements.
Copyright, 1920, by Benjamin De Casseres.
Originally published in The Sun, Books and the Book World, January 25, 1920, p. 6. 1920–1929 article index.