"Grasses" by Alfred Kreymborg

[View this email on a browser]( [Forward to a friend]( [facebook-icon]( [tumblr-icon]( [twitter-icon]( August 19, 2018 [Grasses]( [Alfred Kreymborg]( Who would decry instruments— when grasses ever so fragile, provide strings stout enough for insect moods to glide up and down in glissandos of toes along wires or finger-tips on zithers— though the mere sounds be theirs, not ours— theirs, not ours, the first inspiration— discord without resolution— who would cry being loved, when even such tinkling comes of the loving? [Like this on Facebook]( [Share via Twitter]( This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem “Grasses” was published in Others for 1919: An Anthology of the New Verse (N. L. Brown, 1920). [Alfred Kreymborg]( Alfred Kreymborg was born on December 10, 1883, in New York City. His books include No More War and Other Poems (Bookman Associates, 1950) and The Selected Poems, 1912-1944, of Alfred Kreymborg (E. P. Dutton, 1945), among others. He died on August 14,1966. [more-at-poets]( "Shaking the Grass" by Janice N. Harrington [read-more]( "The Greenness of Grass Is a Positive Quality" by Samuel Amadon [read-more]( "[The grass is beneath my head]" by F. S. Flint [read-more]( August Guest Editor: Evie Shockley Thanks to Evie Shockley, author of semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about [Shockley](​ and our [guest editors for the year.]( Help Support Poem-a-Day If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a [monthly donation]( or [one-time gift]( to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today’s poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! [Small-Blue-RGB-poets.org-Logo]( Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit [Poets.org](. You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click [here](. © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038