Alice Corbin. Apparitions. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Apparitions

By Alice Corbin


I A THIN gray shadow on the edge of thought
Hiding its wounds:
These are the wounds of sorrow—
It was my hand that made them;
And this gray shadow that resembles you	5
Is my own heart, weeping …
You sleep quietly beneath the shade
Of willows in the south.

II When the cold dawn stood above the house-tops,
Too late I remembered the cry	10
In the night of a wild bird flying
Through the rain-filled sky.