Skeletal Pines (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Weathered gray, sparse even the living limbs skeletal pines, evergreens stripped of excess no pretense, essentials only exposed at the ...
Weathered gray, sparse even the living limbs skeletal pines, evergreens stripped of excess no pretense, essentials only exposed at the ...
sitting alone, in the back of the sanctuary pines the rafters, blue sky the ceiling more beautiful than the Sistine ...
Boots crunching in the soft snow deep tracks even for young companions temperature above freezing Walking into the woods, days ...
Corpses piled up on the curb limbs becoming bare in the winter air, shadows of the needles fallen below on ...
Layered frosting thick heavy butter cream hanging heavy on the needles the limbs coated in white a mix of marshmallow ...
Above the bluff, the scar, the clear-cut of the power lines, a forest of pine opens to the north Surrounded ...
Dew in the morning Burst my slumber, stupor, coma Caught me from numbness, Unseeing eyes Dulled senses Forced sight, perception ...
Needles like spring rain cascade down onto the stiff paper the presents around the tree his young arm, tugging on ...
In the dirt in the space under the pines A town planner toils roads and structures stone walls of gravel ...
Grass and needles and weeds stirred by arms and sticks in the pink pool in the yard The giggle twins ...
Grass and needles and weeds stirred by arms and sticks in the pool in the yar. The giggle twins working ...
On a floor of needles and leaves I sat in a cathedral of pine Five trees encircled my prayer Limbs ...
The world is wet today luxurious, damp, drenched drops hug the leaves, anoint the still budded lilac blossoms before their ...
I must return to that valley of vision, gather again to me flocks, crescent moon and star; God - let ...
I wake and hearing it raining. Were I dead, what would I give Lazily to lie here, Like this, and ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
It ceased to hurt me, though so slow I could not feel the Anguish go -- But only knew by ...
A Weight with Needles on the pounds -- To push, and pierce, besides -- That if the Flesh resist the ...
On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its ...
A livid sky on London And like the iron steeds that rear A shock of engines halted And I knew ...
The twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast;- Ah would that this might be the ...
1) Sleeping birds, lead me, soft birds, be me inside this black room, back of the white moon. In the ...
It is possible to be struck by a meteor or a single-engine plane while reading in a chair at home. ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
It had been four days of no weather as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors. They'd closed ...
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
Wasted, wasted minutes that couldn't be worse, minutes of a barbaric condescension. --Stare out the bathroom window at the fir-trees, ...
She slides over the hot upholstery of her mother's car, this schoolgirl of fifteen who loves humming & swaying with ...
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