[identity profile] nyarhotep.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] greatpoetry
¿does anyone know of, or where i might find, the rest of this poem by James Joyce?
‘Rouen is the rainiest place’

Rouen is the rainiest place getting
Inside all impermeables, wetting
Damp marrow in drenched bones.
Midwinter soused us coming over Le Mans
Our inn at Niort was the Grape of Burgundy

But the winepress of the Lord thundered over that
grape of Burgundy
And we left in a hurgundy.
(Hurry up, Joyce, it's time!)....
it's a parody of Eliot's Wasteland written by Joyce in a 1925 letter, and i can't find hide nor hair of it

here's another Joyce poem:


A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight


They mouth love's language. Gnash
The thirteen teeth
Your lean jaws grin with. Lash
Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.
Love's breath in you is stale, worded or sung,
As sour as cat's breath,
Harsh of tongue.

This grey that stares
Lies not, stark skin and bone.
Leave greasy lips their kissing. None
Will choose her what you see to mouth upon.
Dire hunger holds his hour.
Pluck forth your heart, saltblood, a fruit of tears.
Pluck and devour!
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