A Tree with a Bird in it: / A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle

by Margaret Widdemer

Probably putrescent

And green....

I scrabble my toes ...

Glunk!

[!-- H2 anchor --]

Edgar Lee Masters

(Making a statement which you may take or leave, but convincing you entirely.)

IMRI SWAZEY

I was a shock-headed boy bringing in the laundry;