Poems / To Mercedes de Acosta
To Mercedes de Acosta
Beneath a forehead
Broad & Bright
Shine Eyes
Clear wells
of light-
A Slender Body
Soft [above “Soft” is written “Hard”]- White
To be the Source
Of my delight-
Two sprouting breasts
round & Sweet
Invite my hungry
mouth to Eat
from whence two
nipples-firm &
pink persuade my
thirsty soul to drink
& lower still
a Secret place
where I’d fain
hide my burning face
Arch Angel
from Another Sphere
God Sent to
light my pathway
here
I kneel in Adoration
dear
My kisses like a swarm of Bees
Would find Their way
between thy knees
& suck the honey
of thy lips
Embracing thy
Two slender hips
1927