Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
Mail on the RanchEvelyn Scott
From “Tropical Life”
T
Opens the worn saddle-bags,
And takes out the papers.
The thoughts come stabbing,
To taunt, baffle, and stir me to revolt.
I beat against the sky,
Against the winds of the mountain;
But my cries, grown thin in all this space,
Are diluted with emptiness….
Like the air,
Thin and wide,
Touching everything,
Touching nothing.