not a pretty picture. not a good. not a bad. picture. but an argument.

Friday, March 6, 2015

where two boots labored


Where two boots labored yesterday across the
     snowdrifted pasture
today each boothole is an offertory of
      bright seeds
bittersweet yellowbirch hemlock pine thistle
     burning unconsumed.

from "North Winter" by Hayden Carruth