Seasons in Upper Turkeyfoot
Rural in Nature, Transcendental in Temperament
Sunday, October 22, 2017
The First Inch of Day
The air flows over us without meaning
Cool with the breath of the deep
The day settles and thickens
Blue-bold on its pedestal
Another sunlight
To make another world.
—with lines from the poems of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) published
posthumously
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