| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Volplanetor | | By Robert M. McAlmon |
| | From “Flying”
INSOLUBLE in high air’s quiescency | |
| My plane, on earth a sophist, naively | |
| Reconnoitres promiscuously; | |
| Sinuously, nose retroussé, | |
| Explores thinning strata | 5 |
| Of atmosphere, and, volplaning, | |
| Deems itself a static medium. | |
| How it routs pusillanimous planets | |
| From its path at night, | |
| Dazzling them pyrotechnically! | 10 |
| My purposelessness is equalled | |
| By heterogeneous world events. | |
| Nevertheless the sky’s oscularity | |
| Propitiates my primal impulses, | |
| And tedium is thwarted. | 15 | | | |
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