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Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

Witter Bynner

Nakedness

BRIGHTNESS of earth for the hollow of your throat

They brought to you,

And blossoms of death for you to throw away

And many things like links of chains,

To you whose wings are nakedness.

But I have given your nakedness the gift of mine,

And whosoever brings, from this day forth,

Obeisances

To the hollow of your bosom,

Shall find between those hills of sun,

Beloved,

My shadow….