This Much and More

Djuna Barnes

If my lover were a comet
          Hung in air,
I would braid my leaping body
          In his hair.

Yea, if they buried him ten leagues
          Beneath the loam,
My fingers they would learn to dig
          And I’d plunge home!

This poem is in the public domain.

About This Poem

“This Much and More” was published in All-Story Cavalier Weekly on September 4, 1915.

Djuna Barnes was born on June 12, 1892, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. Her works include The Book of Repulsive Women (Bruno Chap Books, 1915) and Nightwood (Faber and Faber, 1937). She died on June 18, 1982, in New York City.

Poetry by Barnes

The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems

(Carcanet Press, 2006)

"Potpourri" by Lola Ridge

"Undressing You" by Witter Bynner

"El Beso" by Angelina Weld Grimké

January Guest Editor: TC Tolbert

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January 12, 2019