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MINNA Poems
MYSELF Poems
THE MASTER POISONER A One-Act Poetic Play by Maxwell Bodenheim and Ben Hecht
POET'S HEART A Poetic Play in One Act
A FOREWORD
But it is not merely as word-juggler that Bodenheim shines. He has an imagination that he uses both as a tool and as a toy. Personally, I care more for Bodenheim when he plays with his images , than when his figures attempt to build or destroy something . It is as a decorator that his gifts serve him best. Even such an intimate picture as "Factory Girl" is saved from mawkishness by his delicate sense of design. The composition in which Death is seen as
"...a black slave with little silver birds Perched in a sleeping wreath upon his head"
has a quality that suggests the Beardsley of "Under the Hill." In the realm of the whimsical-grotesque, Bodenheim walks with a light but sure footstep.
There are doubtless other things--sharper and more important--in the following poems that will attract many. But the ones that I have found seem to have a quiet, unofficial, dignity of their own. Others may ask for more. For me, they are sufficient.
LOUIS UNTERMEYER.
MINNA
Twilight pushes down your eyes With shimmering, pregnant fingers That leave you covered with still-born touch. With little whips of dead words Silence cuts your lips to a keener red. Your heart strikes its bed of dark mirth, in death, And your hands lie over it, guarding the corpse. Night will soon whisk away this room But you are already invisible.
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