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Viewing Foliage on a Cloudy Day:
KINSMAN NOTCH, N.H., OCTOBER 2002

 

At the park turn-out we can see the trees
Through a windy mist
Across a mountain tarn:
Maples, alders, sumac,
Red, yellow, orange,
Luminous, as though an inner light
Adjusted to the grayness of the October day.
The people in the blue car
Are heard to express regret:
The weather, that they had come this day.
They roll up the window and drive off;
They did not get out.

(appeared in Art With Words, March 2006)