Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919.
Alfred Kreymborg1883–1966Old Manuscript
T
is that beautiful old parchment
in which the sun
and the moon
keep their diary.
To read it all,
one must be a linguist
more learned than Father Wisdom;
and a visionary
more clairvoyant than Mother Dream.
But to feel it,
one must be an apostle:
one who is more than intimate
In having been, always,
the only confidant—
like the earth
or the sea.