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Jeanne Shannon

                 

Evensong

September light is mulled wine. It is milkwood and honey.
It drifts down, down, from ever so high, from ever so far,
through the dream-pearled spaces.

It is glass and mulberry, rose quartz and diamond,
shadows of bees.

Peach leaves, rust-gold with dying. And the late roses,
berry-red, that redden the shade-gray walls of the garden.

Beet leaf and squash vine. Sourwood and kale,
gone-to-seed vines in the dirt patch.
Lettuce stalks climbing along the chimneys.

Night passing. Moon at the edge of full; Orion floating.

Trees in a glass garden.

Mandolin weather.

      Previously published in Northwest Literary Forum

Copyright © 2000 Jeanne Shannon.

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