Yvor Winters. The Little Deity Alone in the Desert. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

The Little Deity Alone in the Desert

By Yvor Winters


MY life is here
A contemplation of slow days and distant women.

Women standing in the sky-line
As if about to turn into their shawls and leave their doorways.

The illimitable movement of my hand	5
Across the desert
Contrives against their motions and my being.