| Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920. | | | | Autumn Night | | By Evelyn Scott |
| | | THE MOON is as complacent as a frog. | |
| She sits in the sky like a blind white stone, | |
| And does not even see Love | |
| As she caresses his face | |
| With her contemptuous light. | 5 |
| She reaches her long white shivering fingers into the bowels of men. | |
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| Her tender superfluous probing into all that pollutes | |
| Is like the immodesty of the mad. | |
| She is a mad woman holding up her dress | |
| So that her white belly shines. | 10 |
| Haughty, | |
| Impregnable, | |
| Ridiculous, | |
| Silent and white as a debauched queen, | |
| Her ecstasy is that of a cold and sensual child. | 15 |
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| She is Death enjoying Life, | |
| Innocently, | |
| Lasciviously. | | | | |
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