Alfred Kreymborg. Old Manuscript. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Old Manuscript

By Alfred Kreymborg


THE SKY
Is that beautiful old parchment
In which the sun
And the moon
Keep their diary.	5
To read it all
One must be a linguist
More learned than Father Wisdom,
And a visionary
More clairvoyant than Mother Dream.	10
But to feel it
One must be an apostle:
One who is more than intimate
In having been, always,
The only confidant—	15
Like the earth
Or the sea.