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Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

Marsden Hartley

Local Boys and Girls, Small Town Stuff

A PANTHER sprang at the feet

Of the young deer in the grey wood.

It was the lady who had sworn

To love him,

That rose, wraithlike

From the flow of his blood.

He swooned with her devotions.

There was never one

More jolly and boyish

Than he was, in the great beginning.

Once his slippers were fastened

With domesticity,

He settled down

Like a worn jaguar

Weary with staring through bars.

The caresses that were poured

Over his person

Staled on him.

Love had grown rancid.

Have you emptied the garbage

John?

Prometheus fire

Never can worship

The smell of hams and hocks

Issuing from the smokehouse.

The odours of the street

Hold enticements

That bear entertaining.

There is at least

The tincture of virility

Present.