Aline Kilmer. Escape. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Escape

By Aline Kilmer


From “Novelette” INDIFFERENCE may snare me, but only devotion can hold me.
Where is the net you spread in hope that its meshes might fold me?
Like a shadow I slipped through a web too slight to bind me:
Now, free and wise, I cast the last frail threads on the wind behind me.