(numbered 385)
Published Sunday, May 23, 1937
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Citation reads:
“A special honor which befell Miss Evelyn Coffey was the reprinting of her poem “Revelation” which originally appeared in “Skyline,” literary quarterly of Cleveland College. It follows:”
Revelation
I stood before a city gate,
I and my lonely soul,
Shivering in a homespun coat,
Behind a tattered veil.
The city swung an empty heart
Upon its gilded door.
I shed my longing for earth’s court
And looked upon a star.
Evelyn Coffey
This seems to have been such a decisive moment, Evelyn even in her lonely, homespun, tattered desolation knowing that she was not drawn to the world. She would, at the time of publication, be 30, working at a clerical job. She had a wit as a worker. I wonder what they made of her, this impish, quiet poet.
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