PoetH.D.

Hilda Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name H.D.

Sea Poppies

Amber huskfluted with gold,fruit on the sandmarked with a rich grain, treasurespilled near the shrub-pinesto bleach on the boulders: your stalk has caught rootamong wet pebblesand drift flung by the seaand grated shellsand split conch-shells...

The Pool

Are you alive?I touch you.You quiver like a sea-fish.I cover you with my net.What are you—banded one?

Featured in Episode 1 of “I Hate Poetry”.

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