Powerpoint

By Langdon Hammer,
Professor.

Another figure
in this milieu
of this moment
is the poet H.D.

Here, she is in a photo
from 1915 with a locket
In a poetical pose.

Let’s see,
I’ve some other photos
of the poet here.
Let’s see.

This is as an older woman
and in a familiar place,
seated. She’s on your
left, my right,
with her companion
Brhyer right here.

And that nice
man in the middle’s
one of those who
helped create the
modern poetry archive
in Beinecke Library.

Let’s see,
there she is on her
seventieth birthday
in the nave of
Sterling Memorial
Library.

Well, and this is
over in Beinecke, too.
That’s her death mask.

So, “Sea Violet.”

Adapted from this lecture. And, as such, licensed under the same conditions.