Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Mail on the Ranch

Evelyn Scott

THE OLD black man on the mule

Opens the worn saddle-bags,

And takes out the papers.

From the outer world

The thoughts come stabbing,

To taunt, baffle, and stir me to revolt.

I beat against the sky,

Against the winds of the mountain;

But my cries, grown thin in all this space,

Are diluted with emptiness….

Like the air,

Thin and wide,

Touching everything,

Touching nothing.