Living
The Re-echo Club: as by Algernon Swinburne (Cubist Nude)
From The Re-echo Club
Square eyelids that hide like a jewel;
Ten heads,--though I sometimes count more;
Six mouths that are cubic and cruel;
Of mixed arms and legs, twenty-four;
Descending in Symbolic glories
Of lissome triangles and squares;
Oh, mystic and subtle Dolores,
Our Lady of Stairs.
You descend like an army with banners,
In a cyclone of wrecked parasols.
You look like a mob with mad manners
Or a roystering row of Dutch dolls.
Oh, Priestess of Cubical passion,
Oh, Deification of Whim,
You seem to walk down in the fashion
That lame lobsters swim.
Codex Note
A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Algernon Swinburne as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Cubist Nude).
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MLA
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Algernon Swinburne (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/309/.
Chicago
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Algernon Swinburne (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/309/.
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