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

Columns of Evening

Maxwell Bodenheim

From “Sketches in Color”

THE EVENING seems the ghost of a purple-roofed house

That once held repose.

The leaning columns

Seem to have pulled down the sky to their tops

With long, unseen arms.