Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Perspicuity

Robert M. McAlmon

PIROUETTES

My plane

To the moon’s

Perigee;

Papilionaceously

Lingers in its aura’s

Phosphorescency;

Then, mutable ever,

Flits to Mars’ perihelion.

O plane polytheistic!

Atavistic

In etherealism,

Seeking planets

Phantasmagorical,

Into pellucid

Pleonasm of space

I float

Evanescently.

Near the sheer blaze

Of the sun,

The translucent phlegm

Of my being

Reveals that I

Am the penumbra

Of the universe.