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

Insomnia

Emanuel Carnevali

FOR a year his desperate hands beat the darkness. Then out of their rhythm a monster was created:

Three claws on his breast, so that he could not with facility heave it;

Three claws on his skull, so that he had waking nightmares the year long.

When at last his hands dropped, the monster stooped over him, and with his yellow beak plucked out his white heart.