Max Michelson. To a Woman Asleep in a Street-car. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

To a Woman Asleep in a Street-car

By Max Michelson


From “Masks” WOMAN sleeping in the car—
Strange, aloof and far—
Shall I shake you and tell you
Who you are?

Wake up and let us speak—	5
Till our hearts are bared to the core,
Till we are a man and a woman no more,
Till we are empty like vases that leak,
Till we droop and fall,
Till we are nothing at all.	10