Songs to Joannes, V by Mina Loy

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend January 15, 2017   Songs to Joannes, V   Mina Loy

Midnight empties the street Of all but us Three I am undecided which way back                         To the left a boy —One wing has been washed in the rain     The other will never be clean any more— Pulling door-bells to remind Those that are snug                         To the right a haloed ascetic                         Threading houses Probes wounds for souls —The poor can't wash in hot water— And I don't know which turning to take Since you got home to yourself—first            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Songs to Joannes, V" was published in Volume 3, Number 6 of Others in April 1917.   Mina Loy was born in London on December 27, 1882. Her collections of poetry include Lunar Baedeker (Contact Editions, 1923) and Lunar Baedeker & Time-Tables (Jonathan Williams/Jargon Press, 1958). She died on September 29, 1966. Poetry by Loy   The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997) "The Plain Sense of Things" by Wallace Stevens "War Is Kind [excerpt]" by Stephen Crane "Tender Buttons [A Long Dress]" by Gertrude Stein Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. If you enjoy Poem-a-Day, please consider making a donation to help make it possible. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038