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Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

Jeanne d’Orge

The Sewing Bee

ON a wintry afternoon

They bring their work

And settle round the hearth

A faint half circle of ladylike emotions

Withered now and near the end

They sit embroidering

with fine silk of remembrance

Samples of my past history.

Their crackling gossip pricks

like splintered glass.

When I go in they flutter to me

yearning and coquettish

I am amused to speak in a bold voice

Indelicate truths, rich in blood red oaths

And when they are shocked away

To sprawl alone

full lengthened and masculine

filling my pipe with dark strong thoughts

On the emancipation of woman

flesh or sprite.