| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Transit | | By Katherine Wisner McCluskey |
| | From “Summer Phases”
THE PURPLE shadow clings with desperate will | |
| Tightly to the granite hill; | |
| Tries to grow to it. | |
| I try, beloved, dear, | |
| To carve me out one solid moment here— | 5 |
| Afraid of cruel winds to blow, | |
| Winds implacable that know | |
| Shadows go. | |
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| Winds strip shadows off from hills, | |
| Signalled by cloudy change above. | 10 |
| An instant’s whim, and death may harry love. | |
| Should it sever you from me, | |
| I drift, I drift, | |
| Agnostic of reality. | | | | |
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