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Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

Evelyn Scott

Pietà

THE CHILD

Warm chubby thighs, fat brown arms,

An unsurprised face—

Cries for jam.

The mother buys him with jam…

An old woman

Tottering on lean leather-skinned legs

Sucks with glazing eyes

The crystal silken milk

That flows from the death wound

In a young flower-soft, jewel-soft body.