Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1921/Insanity

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INSANITY
My mind is dark with shadows of a seaThat creeps unheard across a barren sandAnd -breaks unheard in silence over me.
Yet,—smooth as any woman's breast is mine,My limbs sweep slenderly in line,My yearning arms, voluptuous and whiteEncircle night.He clasps me close and lays his cooling lipsAgainst my throat and curves his darkling form, ​His cloud-streaked hair across my bosom slipsAnd down he broods in storm.Passion is freed, he rages in desire,His arms press lightning from me and I lieFormless and loose about him, higher, higher,He lashes me and drops me from the skyTo prostrate lands,And there beside me stretches in the sandsWhile strange dew shines against his hairAnd all hours long the paled moon creeps byTo watch us lying there.
My mind is dark, yet smoother is my breastThan any other woman's,—I must rest,Within these waters pain may slip from me,My mind is dark with shadows of a sea.
The MeasureEda Lou Walton

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