Clouds Without Water

XI , . Follow Iacchus from the Indian vales! Ay! rub yourself, you big lascivious cat, ; Set him with s ilk-whi On the electric soft, the wanton fur! ong upon the milk-white ass: ; Follow Iacchus whil Call upon Hera! You’ve a furious gnat us while the sunset pales Revel it on the flower- I s Worth any gadfly ever sent from her! ver-enamelied grass ; While the moon lasts; then plunge in trackless woads' Call upon Aphrodite! she will send PINE WD ETACETCSS WO ms Slay beasts unheard-of and blaspheming kings! No sparrows from her prudish Paphian home! Mingle in madness with strange sisterhoods! Call upon Artemis! She will not bend Dare black Aornos with Daedalian wings! To lift you from your seas of bitter foam! oo, All words! words! there’s a hunger to express Nay! wrap yourself and rub yourself in silk! ° press The infinite pangs, the infinite mighty blisses Drink of my blood, engorge my fruitless sperm! Stored in the house of rapture and distress For you were suckled on the poisonous milk Whose key is one of our blood-tainted kisses That betrays virgins to the deathless worm. Whose fume arises from the accursed sod Are we not glad thereof? Kiss, Lola, kiss, Where we lie burning an] blaspheming God. Comrade of mine in the uttermost abyss! —- 76 —-