| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | First Growth | | By Richard Butler Glaenzer |
| | From “Crayons of Dominica”
THE NATIVES call this shadowless silence the grands-bois | |
| And tell you these matted buttressed masses are trees— | |
| Fromagers, chataigners, bois blancs and gommiers— | |
| That solid darkness above, nothing but leaves. | |
| No! I am creeping between the legs of monsters, | 5 |
| Mammoths and mastodons tangled in merciless vines. | |
| It is their bellies that block the scorching sunlight: | |
| The drops that fall are their sweat as they strain to the clouds. | | | | |
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