One flame will I wrap about my browned skin—a deed accomplished—

To speak to me on the way.

Then will I go quickly, lest the other fire-beings scorch my slow feet.

To the Violinist

(Mr. Bodenheim writes of the violinist described in our last issue.)

Pits a trillion times blacker than black,

Fringed with little black grasses, each holding

The jerking, smoldering ghost of a thought.

(O deep-aged pupils and lashes!)

At the bottom of the pits lay the phosphorescent bones,