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Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

Alfred Kreymborg

Grasses

WHO

would decry

instruments—

when grasses,

ever so fragile,

provide strings

stout enough for

insect moods

to glide up and down

in glissandos

of toes along wires

or finger-tips on zithers—

though

the mere sounds

be theirs, not ours—

theirs, not ours,

the first inspiration—

discord

without resolution—

who

would decry

being loved,

when even such tinkling

comes of the loving?