Love
Miscast II
From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914): Sword Blades
Love
My heart is like a cleft pomegranate
Bleeding crimson seeds
And dripping them on the ground.
My heart gapes because it is ripe and over-full,
And its seeds are bursting from it.
But how is this other than a torment to me!
I, who am shut up, with broken crockery,
In a dark closet!
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MLA
Lowell, Amy. “Miscast II.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/94/.
Chicago
Lowell, Amy. “Miscast II.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/94/.
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