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.