Seasons in Upper Turkeyfoot
Rural in Nature, Transcendental in Temperament
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Reticence
I take a break from
The tricky business
Of flawed words
And stubborn sounds
At her insistence.
We enter a world
Of white and
Snowy scents.
She has more to
Suggest, it seems,
But won't say it.
—with two lines, broken, by Wallace Stevens
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