Poems
Turner, Grace & Davies, Mary Carolyn & Cooksley, S. Bert & Avery, Claribel Weeks
(^od in Maple Street ^Vision God walks at evening down our dingy street Where lovers stand beneath the shade and say What two within a garden would repeat Once, centuries away. God walks at...
...From room to room pursuing Soul that...
...That, thrust from Eden, we will toil and sweat, —^And that we'll love it all...
...To rise in an immeasurable flight Beyond the darkened cells of flesh to light Flooding the spaces of eternity...
...God walks at evening past each sagging house...
...econd House Down She watches her cat snoop over the floor With never a smile and never a frown And never a glance at the creaking door...
...S. BERT COOKSLBY...
...I'm going to tie my little wain Inside that flower-hung aisle, When birds are singing overhead And fire pinks star the grass with red...
...She talks to her cat and he listens there, And answers her solemnly, stare for stare...
...Who cares where stars of paler stain May hide themselves the while...
...Scattering fragrance near and far Through all the sunlit land...
...II Direction With wings of shining words you sandaled me...
...And how the streets where once I dully trod Ring rhythmic to my heart in love with God...
...He Might seize the fugitive, yet prisoned, me...
...My fingers ached along the thwarted wood— "Oh, God, let it pulse into leaf and flower And, after flower, fruit...
...She sits there rocking and folding her eyes In veil after veil—till wider they grow...
...MARY CAROLYN DAVIES...
...Hark how to song of infinite desire It shapes man's multitudinous, sharp cry...
...Light the dark sense till flesh and I shall part...
...Yet here, within, the sap laughs sweet with life, And leaf and flower, fruit and seed shall be Lovely on mountains of eternity...
...That I God's mating with a soul might see...
...I ll Fruition I took my life's growth in my hands and then I wept to see so strange a stalk, no shoots Heavy with summer's seed, just stem on roots Stricken with drought, and storm, and drought again...
...I'll make you happy, dear...
...He smiles, for yet He knows that woe on us as them will fall...
...In her dusty cap and her dress of brown...
...Insistent Guest, He traversed body's inn...
...make quick its hour— How shall a sterile branch to Thee seem good ?" God took my life into His hands and said: "This plant I prune with sharp, restraining knife, While down the hills of time the rose rims red...
...GRACE TURNER...
...Housekeeping Roms for Rent"—a flapping sign!— As God in Eden smiled to hear their vows, He smiles at yours and mine...
...CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY...
...See how His flaming contact turns to fire Myself, the night, the city and the sky...
...When Stars Look^Small Why hitch your wagon to a star When trees are right at hand, And laden thick as they can hold With drift of silver, rose and gold...
...And swept my heart with passionate delight...
...Friend of God— With eagle's pinion now I must be shod...
...She talks to her cat in the candle glow When his great round eyes are a greenish red And the tip of his tail moves to and fro...
...Their bread of penance and their draughts of prayer I take, on their unconquered courage lean...
...And to His love deathless surrender win...
...Now, at your word, I try the Secret Stair Raised by transcendant saints through the unseen...
...Till green is the dusk and the old cat sighs And ever so quietly small things go Tip^toeing down through the cellar to bed...
...You bared the beauty of death's mystery...
...You tore away the blinding veils of sight...
...Enkindled The hands of Grod have knocked against my heart, His fingers traced impalpable, strange scars That down the paths of flesh, like burning stars...
...God walks at evening down our dingy street As once in Eden where the trees, like this, And moon dropped down on lovers' hair their sweet Petals and moonlight kiss...
...Speak out again, and loudly...
Vol. 6 • May 1927 • No. 3
