Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

A Parable

Katherine Wisner McCluskey

THE MAGNOLIA bud

Loosens her white garments

With exquisite reserve.

So love unfolds

While delicate mysteries,

Like odors,

Subtly escape.

The white magnolia,

Of lucent petals

Textured like woman skin,

Crumples to leather

Limp and brown,

Binding a story told.