This Much and More
by 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 Much and More was published on September 4, 1915.
Djuna Barnes was born on June 12, 1892, in Cornwall-on-Hudson.
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.