| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Ikons | | By Skipwith Cannéll |
| | I. MY thoughts | |
| Are little, silver fishes jumping in a row, | |
| Little fishes leaping upon a black cloth | |
| With a shark behind them. | |
| O yellow eyes in the black sea! | 5 |
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| Too deep lurk the great fishes, | |
| I cannot sense them. | |
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II. I have spun me a chain of water | |
| And about my throat I have bound it, | |
| And a pendant of sand I have made | 10 |
| And hung it upon my breast, | |
| And a cross from it. | |
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| For there is a sea that is like a lurking emerald, | |
| And my soul is a river of black water that runs | |
| Down to that sea. | 15 |
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III. The eyes of evil men are like onyx or amber, | |
| A necklace of stone tight round the throats of women. | |
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| Alas for the tears of evil men … | |
| Black pearls upon a tablet of silver. | | | | |
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