| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Streets | | By Maxwell Bodenheim |
| | From “Charcoals”
ROWS of exact, streaked faces, | |
| Each afraid to be unlike the other, | |
| Recalling the rows of people I have bowed to. | |
| (O bare yellow houses, let me batter different shapes into you | |
| With cracked knuckles!) | 5 |
| Glass globes on signs and in shops, with a light not their own, | |
| Recalling the small souls that festoon the streets of my remembrance. | |
| (Oh, let me place you between large thumbs | |
| And break you to showers of falling splinters and sparks.) | | | | |
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