Marjorie Meeker. Color of Water. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Color of Water

By Marjorie Meeker


From “Songs of Night” YOU will be the color of water;
Your voice will be like the wind;
You will go where the dust goes;
None will know you have sinned.

None will know you are quiet,	5
Or fluent, or bound, or free;
None will care you are nothing;
You will be nothing to me.

Except a scarlet remembrance …
As if, in a dream of pride,	10
A poppy had flaunted her petals
One day to the sun, and died.