Behind 12 Bowie

      Canadians lap and settle here through the equinox
      Pond rough or pond white, they ruffle
      Skinny shanks in lank air.  Indian memories
      Follow the goldfinch.  Old mole brown and
5     Groundhog grey the arrowheads.  Webs find
      The old leaves soft below the Rowan red
      And Oak not.  Coincidence labors in the clay,
      Turning red green and green red, at home
      Along the plough's length of idle irony.  Poor
10    White boring of the dove, And the dogwood
      Its white echo.  The placid confusion of evening
      Is on, white on the spread webs, the
      Soft furled soil cooling.  Again.

 

From the collection "Youth Youth Youth"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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