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Love Songs (Section III)
Mina Loy
We might have coupled
In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment
Or broken flesh with one another
At the profane communion table
Where wine is spilled on promiscuous lips
We might have given birth to a butterfly
With the daily news
Printed in blood on its wings.
About this poem
“Love Songs” was published in Vol. 1, No. 1 of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse in July 1915. r
About Mina Loy
Mina Loy was born in London on Dec. 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 Sept. 25, 1966.
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This poem is in the public domain. Originally published in Poem-a-Day, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
