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

A Heat Wave

Katherine Wisner McCluskey

ALL day a great sun stared,

Obsessed with heat and light!

Thought panted for shelter

On to the dark of night;

But when the sun went down,

Soaked in the lukewarm sea,

I turned and saw a white-hot moon,

Pallid, peering at me!—

And my soul cried aloud,

Mad for some privacy!