Sunday, January 16, 2022

Second snow

 This one doesn't look like much,  but we've had  temps in the teens for days, which means that, when this turns to rain, we will have icy trouble.

Still, I love to watch it snow in the blue hour.




Here's another piece of Roethke's  "The Far Field"  :


All finite things reveal infinitude:

The mountain with its singular bright shade

Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow,

The after-light upon ice-burdened pines;

Odor of basswood on a mountain-slope,

A scent beloved of bees;

Silence of water above a sunken tree :

The pure serene of memory in one man, --

A ripple widening from a single stone

Winding around the waters of the world.

 

 


art by Laura Wilder

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