176. Old Manuscript by Alfred Kreymborg. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

176. Old Manuscript

By Alfred Kreymborg


THE SKY
Is that beautiful old parchment
In which the sun
And the moon
Keep their diary.	5
To read it all,
One must be a linguist
More learned than Father Wisdom;
And a visionary
More clairvoyant than Mother Dream.	10
But to feel it,
One must be an apostle:
One who is more than intimate
In having been, always,
The only confidant—	15
Like the earth
Or the sea.