Virgin
For Lois
You would feed your fierce desire
From my lips, with white fire.
But I have no keys
To these strange mysteries.
Why will you in urgency press
Against my fragile loveliness?
I hold no key
To this mystery.
Copyright Credit: Kathleen Tankersley Young, "Virgin" from Southwest Review, Vol. 13, No. 4, July 1928. Copyright © 1928 by Kathleen Tankersley Young. Reprinted by permission of Southwest Review / Southern Methodist University.
Source: Vol. 13, No. 4, July 1928 (Southwest Review, 1928)