Grace Hazard Conkling. Gulf View. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Gulf View

By Grace Hazard Conkling


From “Out of Mexico” BETWEEN the striped walls of the canyon
Burns a crescent of blue water, arresting, poignant:
Jewel-blue,
soul of opals and sapphires;
Feather-blue,	5
stain of indigo on the peacock’s breast;
Flame-blue,
color that hovers above the copper-saturated driftwood in the beach-fire.
And the tall white poppy down the canyon
Sways against the blaze	10
Like a ship.