| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Consecration | | By Robert M. McAlmon |
| | From “Flying”
THE ACHROMATISM of the sky | |
| Alters the adagio tempo of my consciousness. | |
| The avalanche of air inundating me and my plane | |
| Goes out again from me in coruscating graciousness; | |
| And, the dissonance of my unrest soothed, | 5 |
| Makes me devout before spaciousness. | |
| There is a débacle of various egos within me, | |
| That refractory memory thrusts before me | |
| Knowing they will return to me with earth. | |
| But for the now on high, all the crevices of my being, | 10 |
| Long filled by glutted life, are cleansed; | |
| And I know consecration in eternal ether. | | | | |
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