Lunar Baedeker
Lunar Baedeker
Original Text
Mina Loy. The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996): 81-2. PS 3523.O975 A6 1996X Robarts Library
1A silver Lucifer
2serves
3cocaine in cornucopia
4To some somnambulists
5of adolescent thighs
6draped
7in satirical draperies
8Peris in livery
9prepare
10Lethe
11for posthumous parvenues
12Delirious Avenues
13lit
14with the chandelier souls
15of infusoria
16from Pharoah’s tombstones
17lead
18to mercurial doomsdays
19Odious oasis
20in furrowed phosphorous
21the eye-white sky-light
22white-light district
23of lunar lusts
24 Stellectric signs
25"Wing shows on Starway"
26"Zodiac carrousel"
27Cyclones
28of ecstatic dust
29and ashes whirl
30crusaders
31from hallucinatory citadels
32of shattered glass
33into evacuate craters
34A flock of dreams
35browse on Necropolis
36From the shores
37of oval oceans
38in the oxidized Orient
39Onyx-eyed Odalisques
40and ornithologists
41observe
42the flight
43of Eros obsolete
44And "Immortality"
45mildews ...
46in the museums of the moon
47"Nocturnal cyclops"
48"Crystal concubine"
49Pocked with personification
50the fossil virgin of the skies
51waxes and wanes
Publication Start Year
1958
Publication Notes
Lunar Baedeker & Time-Tables: Selected Poems, 1958
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire