Jeanne D'Orge - The Chameleon (1916)
Forgotten Poems #27
—: The Chameleon :—
What happened yesterday?
What terror drove me here to hide away
Grey
Under a stone?
My lizard soul needs warmth,
Light, color.
It brightens into beauty in the sun.
I will go out again to the dappled earth,
To the gold, to the blue, to the green
Never mind tomorrow's
Or yesterday's dim sorrow
That drove me here to hide alone
Grey under a stone.
Jeanne D'Orge (1877-1964)
P: Bruno's Weekly (1916), The Little Review (1916), Others (1916+), Poetry (1917), The Poetry Journal (1917), The Measure (1923), The New Student (1924); A: Others: An Anthology (1917+); C: Prose Chants (1915; as Lena Dalkeith Yates), Voice in the Circle (1955); plays, articles, etc.
Born Lena Dalkeith Yates, married to Alfred Burton, and wrote a number of children's books. After publishing her first book of prose-poems, Prose Chants (1915), adopted the pen-name Jeanne D'Orge, and in the late 1910s was a key contributor to the Others group, founded by Alfred Kreymborg.
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