Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
FearEvelyn Scott
From “Tropical Life”
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What is the question I cannot answer,
That must be answered?
What is the blank face I must fill in with features?
But I cannot open wide enough to see!
Always at the agonized point of conception,
But never conceiving.
Always giving birth,
But never born!
What is it I am to conceive?
To what must I give birth?