I'd Have You Think of Me

October 1922 Djuna Barnes
I'd Have You Think of Me
October 1922 Djuna Barnes

I'd Have You Think of Me

DJUNA BARNES

I'd have you think of me—

As one who, leaning on the wall once drew

Thick blossoms down, and harkened to the hum

Of heavy bees slow rounding the wet plum, And heard across the fields the patient coo Of restless birds bewildered with the dew.

As one whose thoughts were mad in painful May,

With melancholy eyes turned toward her love,

And toward the troubled earth whereunder throve

The chilly rye and coming hawthorn spray— With one lean, pacing hound, for company.