could be, Roger... I wondered. But then I give myself an excuse to define
the "abstract" mist idea in terms of what I mean by it....undecided on this
bw
SallyE
on 19/7/04 9:22 am, Roger Collett at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hmmm,
>
> I would remove S3
>
> Roger
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 9:18 AM
> Subject: New Sub: Mist II
>
>
>> This is an entirely different poem from the last
>>
>>
>> Mist (II)
>>
>> Here comes the mist,
>> sweeping through the trees,
>> whitening summer dawn.
>>
>> Shapes of poplar,
>> chestnut, a grove of oaks
>> succumb to its swirl.
>>
>> I am asked what mist is,
>> why enveloping, how
>> I use it in metaphor.
>>
>> It has rolled away,
>> white revealing green.
>> Colour grows into morning.
>>
>> Mist of memory, from which
>> the shapes of trees
>> come back to me,
>>
>> it clings to secrets
>> till dawn's slant sun
>> clothes them in roselight
>>
>> - each branch, every tree -
>> a drifting boundary
>> beyond whose blind I see.
>>
>> Sally Evans
>>
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