Jewell Bothwell Tull. Gender. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Gender

By Jewell Bothwell Tull

From “October”

	The sob that comes after the weeping is over,
	The smile after laughter,
	Faith when youth’s gone and death beckons:
	The sum of life, plus a dream.

I DON’T know whether October’s a man or a woman.

When I say She, He looks at me with such masculine eyes;

And when I say He,

She shakes her red head at me.

So I think maybe

October’s a child—or a god.