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Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

Marsden Hartley

Salutation to a Mouse

IF a mouse makes a nest

Of one’s written words,

Is there else to do but accept

The flattery?

I have deemed it wise to do so.

I have thanked him

Sufficiently

As he scurried in and out

Of the room.

He has faced the winter

With a nest of my words.

I did not suspect them

Of such worth against the cold.