Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Gulf View

Grace Hazard Conkling

BETWEEN the striped walls of the canyon

Burns a crescent of blue water, arresting, poignant:

Jewel-blue,

soul of opals and sapphires;

Feather-blue,

stain of indigo on the peacock’s breast;

Flame-blue,

color that hovers above the copper-saturated driftwood in the beach-fire.

And the tall white poppy down the canyon

Sways against the blaze

Like a ship.