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Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

Evelyn Scott

Tropic Winter

THE AFTERNOON is frozen with memories,

Radiant as ice.

The sun sets amidst the agued trembling of the leaves;

Sinking right down through the gold air

Into the arms of the sea.

And the enameled wings of the palm trees

Keep shivering, shivering,

Beating the gold air thin…