gray time
it’s late
it’s fall
winter’s rise
a month away
the bears
have eaten salmon
I saw the camera’s highlights
of
bear
red flesh
and moving stream
taking
what is red
away
so now
the bears are done
(the
salmon gone)
and time for the
sleep
of a season
in the impulse of the bear
and the gray comes
earlier
should clouds
impede
a brilliance for a sunset
either way
and then
is
black-paned night
maybe
rest
regardless
after
hours
the next
the new day
c l couch
photo by Val Vesa on Unsplash
Sunset in Cluj, Romania
(x = space)
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Remembering WCW (MD)
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The light of dusk
Against the tree
Light blue behind branches
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Across the street,
Part of a red-brick building
Bricks shining orange
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There is no wind
No noise
This is life, still
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Maybe it’s true
That so much depends upon his
Scene in twilight
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C L Couch
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XXII
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so much depends
upon
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a red wheel
barrow
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glazed with rain
water
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beside the white
chickens
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Williams, William Carlos, “XXII,” Spring and All (New York: Contact Editions / Dijon: Maurice Darantière, 1923).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Wheelbarrow
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used to drive my students crazy
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Photo by Namroud Gorguis on Unsplash
Red brick wall of an old barn.
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Red Sky at Night
Retiring into the deep
Colors of the day
We come to the end
When light must give
Way to night
We sigh and with
Misty breath, exhale
Into the coming dark
No more arguments
To make against the
Day
Maybe a farmer’s
Understanding, for
There are evening
Laborers
Whose cycle will
Reverse the colors
Sorry, perhaps, for
Those who cannot
Read the final
Message in the dusk
Of dying day
Well, look to new hues
In the tellings that
Arrive, whenever
Daytime and
Nighttime meet, alive
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