Interim
Lola Ridge
The earth is motionless
And poised in space …
A great bird resting in its flight
Between the alleys of the stars.
It is the wind’s hour off ….
The wind has nestled down among the corn ….
The two speak privately together,
Awaiting the whirr of wings.
About this poem
“Interim” was published in Lola Ridge’s book “Sun-up, and Other Poems” (B.W. Huebsch, 1920).
About Lola Ridge
Lola Ridge was born in Dublin on Dec. 12, 1873, and immigrated to the United States when she was 34. Her collections include “The Ghetto and Other Poems” (1918) and “Red Flag” (1927). Ridge died in New York on May 19, 1941.
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