Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)



A poem from the Selected Poems of H.D. (New Directions Press, 1957):


SCRIBE

Wildly dissimilar
yet actuated by the same fear,
the hippopotamus and the wild deer
hide by the same river.

Strangely disparate
yet compelled by the same hunger,
the cobra and the turtle-dove
meet in the palm-grove.


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