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

Things Not Seen

Mark Turbyfill

From “Voluntaries”

THE SEA-GULL poises

In the charged, expectant air.

The sea-gull poises

With delicate resistance.

Its sheer conscious being

Is cause to strike creation

Out of all this emptiness.

The sea-gull waits,

Wavering slightly

Against this mighty immanence.

So does my heart wait

For the release of a substance

Not yet seen.