| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Macabre in Macaws | | By Hervey Allen |
| | From “The Sea-islands”
AFTER the hurricane of the late forties, | |
| Peter Polite says, in the live-oak trees | |
| Were weird macabre macaws, | |
| And ash-colored cockatoos blown overseas | |
| From Nassau and the West Indies. | 5 |
| These hopped about like dead men’s thoughts | |
| Amid the draggled Spanish moss, | |
| Preening themselves, all at a loss; | |
| Mewing faint caws, | |
| And shrieking with nostalgia— | 10 |
| With dull screams like a child | |
| Born with neuralgia. | |
| And this seems true to me, | |
| Fitting the landscape’s drab grotesquery. | | | | |
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