Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Alice Dunbar-Nelson


A woman wearing a large hat with feathers and a fur coat


You! Inez!


Orange gleams athwart a crimson soul
Lambent flames; purple passion lurks
In your dusk eyes.
Red mouth; flower soft,
Your soul leaps up—and flashes
Star-like, white, flame-hot.
Curving arms, encircling a world of love,
You! Stirring the depths of passionate desire!

Notes:
from a Holograph manuscript, dated February 16, 1921

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