| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Cubist Portrait | | By Marjorie Allen Seiffert |
| | From “Gallery of Paintings”
SHE is purposeless as a cyclone; she must move | |
| Either by chance or in a predestined groove, | |
| Following a whim not her own, unable to shape | |
| Her course. From chance or God even she cannot escape! | |
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| Think of a cyclone sitting far-off with its head in its hands, | 5 |
| Motionless, drearily longing for distant lands | |
| Where every lonely hurricane may at last discover | |
| Its own transcendent, implacable, indestructible lover! | |
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| What is a cyclone? Only thin air moving fast | |
| From here to yonder, to become silent emptiness at last. | 10 | | | |
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