30. To a Discarded Steel Rail by Maxwell Bodenheim. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

30. To a Discarded Steel Rail

By Maxwell Bodenheim


STRAIGHT strength pitched into the surliness of the ditch,
A soul you have—strength has always delicate secret reasons.
Your soul is a dull question.
I do not care for your strength, but for your stiff smile at Time—
A smile which men call rust.	5