Flamingoes

Read "Flamingoes" at The Eldritch Dark:

http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/191/flamingoes

This is a rather pleasant (if insubstantial) poem from Clark Ashton Smith (CAS) which achieved magazine publication shortly after it was written in 1919.  Smith commented in a letter to George Sterling*:

I've sold a few thing during the past month...and two more ("Palms" and "Flamingoes") to a beautifully printed geographical magazine entitled "Asia", which pays 50¢ per line.

The fact that this poem was sold to a general interest magazine may account for the innocuous nature of its content.


*See letter #206 in The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith published by Hippocampus Press.