| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Perspicuity | | By Robert M. McAlmon |
| | From “Flying”
PIROUETTES | |
| My plane | |
| To the moon’s | |
| Perigee; | |
| Papilionaceously | 5 |
| Lingers in its aura’s | |
| Phosphorescency; | |
| Then, mutable ever, | |
| Flits to Mars’ perihelion. | |
| O plane polytheistic! | 10 |
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| Atavistic | |
| In etherealism, | |
| Seeking planets | |
| Phantasmagorical, | |
| Into pellucid | 15 |
| Pleonasm of space | |
| I float | |
| Evanescently. | |
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| Near the sheer blaze | |
| Of the sun, | 20 |
| The translucent phlegm | |
| Of my being | |
| Reveals that I | |
| Am the penumbra | |
| Of the universe. | 25 | | | |
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