The Hudson River Diaries A Compendium of Poetry and Natural History gleaned from observations in and around Sparkill, New York |
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Chanterelles Cinnabar The rain came late today With threatening announcements Languidly electric and cacophonous This is a place where lightning twins Spits dirt Leaves tracks on someone else’s lawn
Crimson Climbing through a treachery of rounded stones and grass Up hillsides Slippery with green tides of poison ivy, bramble waste Then into leaves Erratics Darkness worked by worms
Vermillion Up from the earth in the blood of Christ The angels sing the symphonies But devils do the work of scoring them There’s no need to eat temptation Just to see it Is to open Wider than the mouths of snakes
2009
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All material copyright 2011 by Lee van Laer. Do not reproduce without permission. |