"Clouds across the Canyon"
Shadows of clouds
March across the canyon,
Shadows of blue hands passing
Over a curtain of flame.
Clutching, staggering, upstriking,
Darting in blue-black fury,
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John Gould Fletcher's poem "Clouds across the Canyon" from his "Arizona" sequence was published in the 1916 Some Imagist Poets anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the link(s) below:
The Modernist Journals Project
Project Gutenberg (text version)