"At the Door of the House"
[ca. 1915]
A thousand women's eyes Riveted to the unrealisable Scatter the wash-stand of the card-teller Defiled marble of Carrara On which she spreads Color-picture maps of destiny In the corner of an inconducive bed-room “Impassioned Doubly impassioned Sad You see these three cards But here is the double Victory And there is an elderly lady Ill in whom you are concerned This is the Devil And these two skeletons Are mortifications You are going to make a journey At evening about love Here is the Man of the Heart Turning his shoulders to a lady Covered with tears about matrimony At the door of your house There is a letter about an affair And a bed and a table And this ace of spades turned upside-down ‘With respect’ Means that some man Has well you know Intentions little honorable Here you are covered with tears For a deception The Man of the Heart Is in thoughtfulness for a letter He will make a journey at evening And really lady I should say It will not be long before you see him For there he is at the door of the house And look Here are you And here is he In life and thought At the door of the house” Muddled among the aniline brightness of the Tauro cards The wheels with wings The rows on rows of goblets Passionate magenta blossoms Hermits—bring luck— Moons Prison-fortresses Cudgels A man cut in half Means a deception And the nude woman Stands for the world Those eyes Of Petronilla Lucia Letizia Felicita Filomena Amalia Orsola Geltrude Caterina Delfina Zita Bibiana Tarsilla Eufemia, Looking for the little love-tale That never came true At the door of the house. |
Costa San Giorgio 54.
Loy's main residence while in Florence |