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

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

Lanes

By Alfred Kreymborg


From “Toadstools” DO you wish to hear songs,
Silent songs—
Gone,
To come,
Or never to come?	5
No lane of fallen leaves,
However red or brown or gold,
However soft to the tread,
Is as caressing
As the hard gray flagstone	10
Of a city street.
Look at one and hear.