Clement Wood. The Link. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

The Link

By Clement Wood


WHEN the storm-clouds piled between us,
In the dark and chasmed hour
When we struggled for a rebirth of our souls
And of our love for one another,
One thing held me to you.	5

It was not the expanding structures of love
That we had builded together;
It was not vows,
Nor inner promises of eternal fealty,
Nor our common purposes in life,	10
Nor the clenching grasp of passion—

It was the battered little coffee-pot
That we had bought together for five cents
From a ghetto push-cart,
That would not let me go.	15