Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUTUMN HAZE, by HARRY HARRISON KROLL


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AUTUMN HAZE, by                    
First Line: The autumn afternoon
Last Line: And I am lonely.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


The autumn afternoon
Is cloaked in gray-slate haze,
Deep and wistful and lonely.

The veiled hills are like nuns,
Who peer for a moment,
Then flit warily away
Against a dim sky-line.
The farmlands lie
In filmy patience and unreality.
Silos stand, like priests blessing
Roof tops of blue misshapen barns.
Momentarily the river catches the filtered sunlight
And the sheen is like music
Heard through long distances.
Cows go down through the mystery of
Dimness, and are swallowed.
Cars rise out of it,
And return swiftly to nothingness.
Only sounds seem real:
They are near, and startlingly clear.

Autumn haze, veiled and gray-blue --
Harbinger of winter.
And I am lonely.





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