The Descent of Winter: 10/22

Arthur Wesley Dow, In the Salt Marshes

that brilliant field
of rainwet orange
blanketed

by the red grass
and oilgreen bayberry

the last yarrow
on the gutter
white by the sandy
rainwater

and a white birch
with yellow leaves
and few
and loosely hung

and a young dog
jumped out
of the old barrel


(W.C.W.)


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