Poetry of Kansas

Words.

Have twigs tossed down a bounding, sounding mountain torrent
The power to steer a course midst the hoarse foam-flecked cascades?
 
My thoughts have still less power to embower themselves in words;
Those words are only pounding sounds, nonsensical.

__Neale Carman

Contemporary Kansas Poetry
Helen Rhoda Hoopes
page 28
(Kansas City: Joseph D. Havens Company. 1927)

 
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