| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Hunter | | By Laura Sherry |
| | From “A Town on the River”
THE LUMBER jacks called him Pine-tree Parker. | |
| He was long and lean and straight and lovely. | |
| He hunted big game—moose and caribou. | |
| One year, under the north star, | |
| He got a shot at a polar bear, | 5 |
| And carried the glistening white hide to the door of the woman he loved. | |
| His step was as light as a child’s | |
| And padded like an animal’s; | |
| But the hard knuckles of his fist split the panel of the door | |
| When the woman he loved locked it against him. | 10 |
| “All right, girl—all right!”— | |
| And his light step again sought the woods | |
| And big game— | |
| Moose and caribou. | | | | |
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