+1, +1, and 4x4, and a 5th 5

+1, +1, and 4×4, and a 5th 5

A Drop Away

Part I
pour la petite Raquel, brillant

The snow’s invasion had been spent
The clouds dispersed, vanquished away
like broken bread reduced to crumbs
blue skies through rifts appeared at last;
and after six o’clock we saw the sun.

It shone on Minneapolis
of glass, of towers ranked and bright,
a crop and shock of light. The corn
of winter’s summer’s prairie yield;
and still the cold impinges on our minds.

The mountains rise to mountain sky
though mountain skies are not like ours;
here skies are far more mutable
and swept with long north winds; and calm
the city rests immutable below.

The wind runs through alive, unchecked,
like all the rampant plows that range
to make aborted mine shafts in
the streets of Minneapolis;
on these we went in shadow long, in light.

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Posted by unknowing on March 28, 2008

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