Mark Turbyfill. Mellow. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Mellow

By Mark Turbyfill


THESE soft hours,
The color of blurred pebbles
And wan sand,
Are an old worn fringe
About the breasts	5
Of the mellow afternoon.

The lilac lake
Is a saucer—thin—
Burdened with faint blue rings.

The brown velvet dog	10
Is a curved attitude
Upon the lawn.

Jagged in the black tree-lines
The frayed sun languishes—
A pale pink poppy	15
Grown too large.