Maxwell Bodenheim. Happiness. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Happiness

By Maxwell Bodenheim


From “Sketches in Color” THE MOON, like the ash-colored wraith of a candle-flame,
Hangs bewildered, in a gaudy, blowing afternoon:
So does your little joy hide itself.

The crippled sunlight drags its huge orange limbs
Over a tiny, squatting hill:	5
So does your joy pass over me.

At the end of a red, capering afternoon
The dizzy trees bow slowly to the sun:
So do I salute your happiness.