Culver Stockton College - Milestones Yearbook (Canton, MO)

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-DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI .IQHN Gouu: FLETCHER I EMBARKATION Dull ,masses of dense green, The forests range their somhre platforms., Between them silently, like a spirit, The rioer finds its own mysterious path. Loosely the river sways out, hackward, forward, Always fretting the outer, side, .Yhunning the invisible focus of each crescent, Seeking to spread into shining loops over fields: Like an enormous. serpent, dilating, uncoiling, Displaying a broad scaly hack of earth-smeared gold: .Fwaying out sinuously between the dull motionless forests, As molten metal might glide down the lip of a vase of dark hronze. FULL MOON ' Flinging its arc of silver bubbles, quickly shifts the moon From side to side of us as we go down its path: f I sit on the deck at midnight, and watch it slipping and sliding, Under my tilted chair, like a thin film of spilt water. NIGHT LANDING After the whistle's roar has hellowed and shuddered,- Shaking the sleeping townland the somnolent river, The deep-toned floating of the pilot's hell Suddenly warns the engines. They pause like heart-heats that abruptly stop: The shore glides to us, in a wide low curve. And then-supreme revelation of the river- The tackle is loosed, the long gang-plank swings outwardsg And poised at the end of it, half naked heneath the search-light, A blue-black negro with gleaming teeth waits for his chance to leap Poetry-A Magazine of Verse, October, 1920

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